North Eastern Meccano Society
Darlington 2018
As usual we held our main exhibition at Darlington on October 13th 2018. Here is part two of a selection of photos from that show.
Pictures from Darlington 2018 (2)
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Photo - John Witchard
Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Herdman's model of the Apollo 'Eagle' Moon Lander (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Herdman's model of the Apollo 'Eagle' Moon Lander (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Herdman's model of Robot Wars House Robot 'Shunt'. The model is infra-red controlled and craven through two 12colt Buhler motors driving through twin power and steering differentials. The axe is independently driven by a Meccano 6volt motor. (13/10/2018)
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Photo - John Witchard
Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Herdman's model of Robot Wars House Robot 'Shunt'. The model is infra-red controlled and craven through two 12colt Buhler motors driving through twin power and steering differentials. The axe is independently driven by a Meccano 6volt motor. (13/10/2018)
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Photo - John Witchard
Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Herdman's model of Robot Wars House Robot 'Shunt'. The model is infra-red controlled and craven through two 12colt Buhler motors driving through twin power and steering differentials. The axe is independently driven by a Meccano 6volt motor. (13/10/2018)
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Photo - John Witchard
Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Herdman's model of Robot Wars House Robot 'Shunt'. The model is infra-red controlled and craven through two 12colt Buhler motors driving through twin power and steering differentials. The axe is independently driven by a Meccano 6volt motor. (13/10/2018)
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Photo - John Witchard
Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Herdman's model of Robot Wars House Robot 'Shunt'. The model is infra-red controlled and craven through two 12colt Buhler motors driving through twin power and steering differentials. The axe is independently driven by a Meccano 6volt motor. (13/10/2018)
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Photo - John Witchard
Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Rob Mitchell's Ball-booting machine - a prize winning machine which can be best described as an automated golf swing which fired ping pong balls into a drum. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Rob Mitchell's 'Cyclic Sidewinder' from the October 1979 MM where it is described as 'an intriguing device in which a motor drives a trolley, but no road wheels are driven mechanically', (13/10/2018)
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Photo - John Witchard
Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Rob Mitchell's Chaotic Rope machine. A fast running driver imparts momentum to a rope ;loop which is surprisingly stable until it is prodded! Tilting the thing a few degrees back towards the vertical makes the rope climb higher until it collapses. The rope is two bootlaces glued together. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Rob Mitchell's Chaotic Rope machine. A fast running driver imparts momentum to a rope ;loop which is surprisingly stable until it is prodded! Tilting the thing a few degrees back towards the vertical makes the rope climb higher until it collapses. The rope is two bootlaces glued together. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Rob Mitchell's Crankshaft Curios. These were made for a Sheffield Guild part based theme contest (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Rob Mitchell's Mill Engine - Pre-war model No.6.37 (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Angus Plumb with his extensive display of Meccano models (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Angus Plumb's Meccanograph (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Bob Watson's model of a Burrell Showman's Engine. It was built according to instructions in the December 1986 issue of the Sheffield Guild magazine. The roof was left open to allow the working motions to be easily viewed. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Bob Watson built this model of a diesel Electric Locomotive running on an elevated track. It was based on a shop display model built by the Binns Road factory. It features an automatic reversing mechanism and headlights which light for the direction it is running in. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Brian Harper with his Meccano version of the popular children’s board game ‘Mouse Trap’. Apparently he was prompted to build this as his grand children thought it would be a good idea! It certainly was at the end of the day as this model won Brian third prize!! (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Brian Harper's Meccano version of the popular children’s board game ‘Mouse Trap’. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - It is not very often that you see Meccano being used to recreate scientific apparatus, but that is exactly what Brian Harper has done. Developed sometime in the late 19th century the Wimshurst machine was developed as a machine for generating high voltages by British inventor James Wimshurst. Faithfully replicated in Meccano to a design by the late Noel Ta’Bois, Brian’s machine will produce static electricity which is stored in two Leyden Jars until the voltage between them reaches a value sufficient to produce an arc across the arc gap, the potential required to produce this being in the region of 33Kv—50Kv (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - George Roy with a heavily modified Bray side rod engine based on a design by Brian Rowe (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - George Roy's heavily modified Bray side rod engine based on a design by Brian Rowe (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - George Roy brought along a collection of vehicle from current 2018 Meccano sets (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Ian Mordue'ss Sennebogen Material Handler in the version that travelled on rails (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Ian Perrins' model of a Showman's Road Locomotive (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Ian Perrins' model of a Maudsley Twin Ram Tipper Lorry with two speed and reverse gearbox. Also with working lights. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Ian Perrins' model of aa Atkinson Tipper Eight Wheel Lorry with screw tipping ram. it has a three speed and reverse gearbox, twin differentials and lights (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Bader's model of a Mercedes Benz W31 Type six wheel staff car towing a ceremonial field gun. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Bader's model of a machine gun from a 1930’s manual which actually works, by firing Meccano spring clips at whoever is in the way! (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - John Bader's model of an oscillating fan from the 1929 Book of New models which operated quietly and efficiently all day thanks to the inclusion of a refurbished E20B motor (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Mike Gough's model of a Beam Engine. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Mike Gough's model of a Gas Engine (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Mike Gough's model of a Vertical Steam Engine (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Norman Brown discussing the finer points of his Bucket Excavator created by Tom McCallum and re-designed and described by Roger Marriot in Model Plan 237 as a set 10 Model, supplied by MW Models. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Norman Brown discussing the finer points of his Bucket Excavator created by Tom McCallum and re-designed and described by Roger Marriot in Model Plan 237 as a set 10 Model, supplied by MW Models. (13/10/2018)
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Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Norman Brown discussing the finer points of his Bucket Excavator created by Tom McCallum and re-designed and described by Roger Marriot in Model Plan 237 as a set 10 Model, supplied by MW Models. (13/10/2018)
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Photo - John Witchard
Darlington Exhibition October 2018 - Russ Carr's Arduino controlled Tower of Hanoi Robot (13/10/2018)
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