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What did you get for Xmas?

ebee
I got a brand new adjustable spanner and a set of batterys for my test meter! Cool or what? Yipee
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    That is good ebee, both useful and practical items. I mainly got some chocolates and meals with some very good friends. But, I have to say that I do not really need anything as I have everything that I need already, being a very simple soul.  But as they say: "It's the thought that counts." I may have to treat myself to some stronger glasses this year.


    Bye,


    Z.
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    Thunderbird 2 Mecano set ?
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    gkenyon:

    Thunderbird 2 Mecano set ?




    Well, I suppose that the OP didn't specify the year. ?

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    I didn't get, but 8 y.o. granddaughter got a robotic hedgehog kit. "Will you help me put it together, Grandpa?"


    150 parts - mostly injection-moulded PVC, but also a wee PCB, battery holder, some tiddly screws, and springs. Thankfully, the dogs didn't eat any of them.


    The instructions were excellent and it did what it says on the tin, but assembly is well beyond the skills of an average 8 year old or even adult. It took me a few hours - I couldn't go home until it was done. ? Suitable for anybody who has the patience and fine dexterity - a skilled modeller, an electrician, or a surgeon. ?
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    Thunderbird 2 Mecano set ?






    Frank Hornby's Meccano was great. I particularly liked the gear set that enabled you to make gear boxes, differential gears for cars and other interesting mechanisms. It was educational and fun. After assembling a complicated gear box or other assembly I hated the idea of stripping the assembled item down to recover the parts, so I always was short of parts for a new model.


    Z.

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    Yes I learned from gearings, especially how the differential works.

    Meccano was brill. My maternal Grandma was amazed how

    I always managed to pick the one nut and one bolt that fitted together from out of the many out on the table at any one time (no I never let on, it would have complicated things!

     

    Sounds funny now but this was back in the 60s. During my Grandma`s previous years things were not as precision made and anyone trying to fit identical pairs together would indeed pick a few to find best fit for ease
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    ebee:

    My maternal Grandma was amazed how I always managed to pick the one nut and one bolt that fitted together from out of the many out on the table at any one time (no I never let on, it would have complicated things!


    Sounds funny now but this was back in the 60s. During my Grandma`s previous years things were not as precision made and anyone trying to fit identical pairs together would indeed pick a few to find best fit for ease.


    Hardly! Whitworth standardized his thread in the middle of the 19th century. ?

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    People get entrenched with dogma. What has always been always is and always will.


    Example, my late father in law always viewed goods being more expensive than labour, he`d travel miles to "save a shilling" .

    In the 70s he would remark about me buying three chisels for chases on a rewire wheras he would buy one and when it got blunt he`d break off the job and find a little local back street engineering shop and ask them to sharpen it for 50p or whatever. It would take him some time off his job in hand. I`d wait till after job ends and get all 3 sharpened.


    Another example early 80s he travel 17miles, 30 mins each way to save £2 off a door - one door!, if it was say 10 doors then yes good idea, but one door?


    People were brought up like that and it stayed with them for life, with good reasons at the time. But times changed but not their habits. So it`s not actually as daft as first appears.


    Nowadays we tend to throw things away with usefull life remaining, that irks me more
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    ebee:

    People get entrenched with dogma. What has always been always is and always will.


    Example, my late father in law always viewed goods being more expensive than labour, he`d travel miles to "save a shilling" .

    In the 70s he would remark about me buying three chisels for chases on a rewire wheras he would buy one and when it got blunt he`d break off the job and find a little local back street engineering shop and ask them to sharpen it for 50p or whatever. It would take him some time off his job in hand. I`d wait till after job ends and get all 3 sharpened.


    Another example early 80s he travel 17miles, 30 mins each way to save £2 off a door - one door!, if it was say 10 doors then yes good idea, but one door?


    People were brought up like that and it stayed with them for life, with good reasons at the time. But times changed but not their habits. So it`s not actually as daft as first appears.


    Nowadays we tend to throw things away with usefull life remaining, that irks me more




    I thought that the frugal mentality was mainly a Norfolk thing. I know a millionaire that holds shares and funds. He begrudges spending £4.00 for paper work from his stockbrokers. So petty.


    Z.

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    Socks, walking shoes, a wirless mouse, aftershave and energy gels for cycling.

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