Brian Meccano Leach

Brian Meccano Leach

Introducing the world of Meccano, the construction toy that although still around now, was at its most popular for much of the 20th century. The models form several categories.
1). Models made from manuals in the 1970's.
2). South East London Meccano Club (SELMEC) challenges.
3). Mechanisms (a major interest).
4). My own projects.

Meccano excavator

Meccano excavator

Meccano Derek the dragon

Meccano Derek the dragon

Meccano Tumbler Mk.2

Meccano Tumbler Mk.2

Meccano anemometer

Meccano anemometer

Meccano GWR logo

Meccano GWR logo

Meccano Diesel Shunter

Meccano Diesel Shunter

Meccano Tumbler toy

Meccano Tumbler toy

Meccano Crazy Golf hole

Meccano Crazy Golf hole

Meccano Transformer

Meccano Transformer

Meccano vibratory motor

Meccano vibratory motor

Meccano Elektrikit Windmill

Meccano Elektrikit Windmill

Meccano Deep Groove Pulley

Meccano Deep Groove Pulley

Meccanograph

Meccanograph

Meccano Bulldozer

Meccano Bulldozer

Meccano BBC2 Ident

Meccano BBC2 Ident

Meccano safe #2.

Meccano safe #2.

Meccano coin grabber

Meccano coin grabber

Meccano Safe #1

Meccano Safe #1

Meccano delivery van

Meccano delivery van

Meccano Astronaut

Meccano Astronaut

Meccano football game

Meccano football game

Meccano H-gate gearbox

Meccano H-gate gearbox

Meccano Christmas star

Meccano Christmas star

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  • @DaveGardner64
    @DaveGardner6423 күн бұрын

    Nice model. You going to Skegness ?

  • @picknikbasket
    @picknikbasket2 ай бұрын

    Meccano in name only.

  • @Sakura1
    @Sakura12 ай бұрын

    Wouldnt two gears do the same thing?

  • @GStranger1
    @GStranger12 ай бұрын

    Nice builds but. For the model 3.7 you have pointed the fact that there is no indication on how to attach the rope . Can you make a little sketch or a video on how to do it ? I have start it but i am deling with that problem since 2 days now.

  • @PLAYINGAROUND
    @PLAYINGAROUND3 ай бұрын

    I dare say I've a MEC1 you could borrow Brian.

  • @davidterry2038
    @davidterry20383 ай бұрын

    Love Him! For the next challenge, can you make him breathe real fire ?? 😁😁👍🏻👍🏻

  • @MECCNUTTY
    @MECCNUTTY3 ай бұрын

    The steam powered one did, breathe steam

  • @Akrucious
    @Akrucious3 ай бұрын

    That's 🔥@@MECCNUTTY

  • @davidrichter9164
    @davidrichter91644 ай бұрын

    Man, I love meccano! Had all kinds of sets when i was a kid and still have them. My nephews loved building stuff with them when they were kids too!

  • @geoffreybarrow8935
    @geoffreybarrow89354 ай бұрын

    Surely the vibration of the arm is caused by the circuit breaker on the right? When the arm moves down, the tension on the cord increases and pulls the 3-inch pulley slightly in the direction of the pull. Then the circuit breaker causes the electromagnet to be switched off, and the spring-loaded arm moves back upwards. During this brief phase, the tension in the cord is reduced, so the friction is reduced and there is no turning effect on the pulley, So the net movement is in the direction the cord pulls in for the split second the electromagnet is energised. It would, in fact, work just as well with DC.

  • @antonigual
    @antonigual4 ай бұрын

    Get it to sound a higher note when the wind speeds up so you can compare it with a keyboard and have a table note->wind speed. :D

  • @marc53200
    @marc532005 ай бұрын

    beau travail.

  • @MrSnooze
    @MrSnooze6 ай бұрын

    Great to see this in action, thanks for posting this up. A great build 🙂

  • @MECCNUTTY
    @MECCNUTTY4 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it

  • @RustyInventions-wz6ir
    @RustyInventions-wz6ir6 ай бұрын

    Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice setup

  • @davidterry2038
    @davidterry20386 ай бұрын

    Let's see it running Brian - please !

  • @MrSnooze
    @MrSnooze6 ай бұрын

    It will be good to see it in full operation

  • @MECCNUTTY
    @MECCNUTTY6 ай бұрын

    good point. i will do a video with a 2 minute run.

  • @MayarNassar314
    @MayarNassar3148 ай бұрын

    Love your channel!

  • @jamesoneill5070
    @jamesoneill50708 ай бұрын

    0:52 The garden seat was the first model I made when I was about 7 years old in 1950. It was in red and green in those days.

  • @davidterry2038
    @davidterry20388 ай бұрын

    Brilliant - it's like a cross between 70s games Cascade and Avalanche !!!

  • @LoadingProcess1
    @LoadingProcess19 ай бұрын

    Thats a CVT gearbox meaning continuously variable transmission which is what you made

  • @Meccano.
    @Meccano.9 ай бұрын

    Qué bonito!! Yo tuve un Meccano cuando era niño. Fue, junto a mi tren eléctrico y mi primera bicicleta 🚲, uno de los regalos que más recuerdo y con más cariño, hoy día en que soy un adulto. Con el Meccano construí un sinnúmero de mecanismos y modelos y disfruté enormemente la experiencia infanfil de sentirme un gran constructor. Bonito barco 🚢, Felicitaciones 👏👏👏

  • @U11TUBE14
    @U11TUBE149 ай бұрын

    Little late to the party here. If I get set 5, do I have all the parts I need to build these? Or do I need more parts?

  • @U11TUBE14
    @U11TUBE149 ай бұрын

    And I don’t mean all at the same time, but just each in turn

  • @MECCNUTTY
    @MECCNUTTY8 ай бұрын

    Yes, but the standard set 5 does not come with motors. There was a 5me which had the power drive unit, but no clockwork motors or the junior power drive

  • @aaronmoore2691
    @aaronmoore26919 ай бұрын

    Simplifies machines lead to learning complex machines.

  • @picknikbasket
    @picknikbasket10 ай бұрын

    Worth at least one point, surely?

  • @LondonMeccanoClub
    @LondonMeccanoClub Жыл бұрын

    There's this one from Robin: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKSNmsizn5DcqtI.html

  • @MECCNUTTY
    @MECCNUTTY10 ай бұрын

    thanks Tim.

  • @ConnorDonnelly-pp8bx
    @ConnorDonnelly-pp8bx Жыл бұрын

    Really nice!

  • @picknikbasket
    @picknikbasket Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant! The film was pretty good too 😊

  • @samueldsaunders
    @samueldsaunders Жыл бұрын

    Really enjoying your channel Brian! Lots of great ideas. Thanks :)

  • @boballen2350
    @boballen2350 Жыл бұрын

    Hi, do you have any dimensions available for the roller sizes please?

  • @B5160-8
    @B5160-8 Жыл бұрын

    ..

  • @meccanoman
    @meccanoman Жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
    @JohnDavies-cn3ro Жыл бұрын

    I'm intrigued by the rowers, as to when they first appeared in the instruction books. Some models only stayed for an edition or two, others went on for decades. The general style of that little fellow sugests 1920's to me, but I could be wrong.

  • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
    @JohnDavies-cn3ro Жыл бұрын

    I got hold of the prewar 'Supermodels' leaflets, buying the extra parts I needed to make ones which particularly interested me, ending up with roughly a No 10 + collection. Having grown up with Meccano, which taught me a great deal of my engineering know-how, I would never part with it. As for the instructions saying something was 'simple' (a very relative term) I recall the guidance for the pre-war No 8 RNLI lifeboat and tractor - "Construction of the lifeboat is obvious from the photograph......." a slight understatement if ever there was one...... (But a lovely, and very different model....)

  • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
    @JohnDavies-cn3ro Жыл бұрын

    The hook cage as you call it is known as a crab, particularly in traditional Meccano terminology

  • @shanestephens2314
    @shanestephens2314 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for going to the trouble of creating this to explain how it was done.

  • @arobbins100
    @arobbins100 Жыл бұрын

    Very well done - I had actually never thought about how they produced that scene; such an iconic one too. Very interesting to watch how you did it, I'm sure you've hit on how the original was filmed too. Just as an aside, I'm watching your clip on 02/04/2023 which according to the Wiki P is the day 2001 premiered in 1968. Loved the video, thanks!

  • @LordFalconsword
    @LordFalconsword Жыл бұрын

    It was cheaper to build this set than to try and simulate freefall with wires, and ultimately more convincing as well.

  • @adrianthoroughgood1191
    @adrianthoroughgood1191 Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding!

  • @joeynrg
    @joeynrg Жыл бұрын

    11 years and KZread sends me to this video.. It either knows me way to well or is running out of stuff to show me. Either way, great video!

  • @exequiel1989
    @exequiel1989 Жыл бұрын

    Buen video: Recomendación innecesaria pero buena, explicación clara y corta, con ejemplos y un monito que camina. 10/10

  • @fredericksaxton3991
    @fredericksaxton3991 Жыл бұрын

    I went to see this film on first release in 1969, it became my favourite film. Thank you for the video. Very well explained.

  • @_c_y_p_3
    @_c_y_p_3 Жыл бұрын

    With that much time and bolts you coulda built your own space rocket! I am kidding, interesting and very cool to see. Thanks for sharing. I bought a tattoo design course buy Guy Aitchison and he showed how to build diaramas and light them with absolutely magical lighting just using a few basic rules of composition and keeping your contrast between textures and colors, light and dark. He was building biomechanical contraptions much like HR Gieger but building em around a lightbulb where the light became a central vanishing point. You should all look up his courses and ignore the tattoo part, just look at the clay and chicken wire prop building and lighting, and design theories, the guy is a revolutionary. He changed tattooing forever.

  • @wompstopm123
    @wompstopm123 Жыл бұрын

    i had no idea meccano was like this, i wish i had this instead of lego

  • @TheWorldBelow360
    @TheWorldBelow360 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic with much durismo!

  • @davidterry2038
    @davidterry2038 Жыл бұрын

    Noisy, but nice ! 😉

  • @elsieesq
    @elsieesq Жыл бұрын

    Runs nicely. I saw one of these in a jewellers beneath a turntable displaying rings ect

  • @jonesy4588
    @jonesy4588 Жыл бұрын

    the whole movie was an illusion , this was the stupidest boring movie I ever tried to watch

  • @fathom6424
    @fathom6424 Жыл бұрын

    Yes, 11 years old and KZread recommends this now!? I hope Brian sees this comment because I want to congratulate him on this video.

  • @mariodistefano2973
    @mariodistefano2973 Жыл бұрын

    A very neat explanation, glad to see that YT algorithm made m to your video. Thanks!

  • @louddog962
    @louddog962 Жыл бұрын

    Nailed it!

  • @chrisBruner
    @chrisBruner Жыл бұрын

    Wow, KZread randomly recommended this video 11 years after the fact, but I too appreciate the clear and concise explanation and demonstration!

  • @atomartmatter5970
    @atomartmatter5970 Жыл бұрын

    "MECCANO" and "2001". Two reasons to live