Date   : Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:57:18 +0000
From   : Ben Newsam <ben@...>
Subject: Re: buggies - thousands of them!

In message <1101215381.20058.36.camel@...>, Jules 
Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> writes
>On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 01:22 +0000, Ben Newsam wrote:
>> In message <1101168136.18453.96.camel@...>, Jules
>> Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> writes
>> >
>> >well, six turned up at the weekend anyway:
>> >
>> >http://www.moosenet.demon.co.uk/temp/comps/buggies.jpg
>>
>> Well done! I don't think even I have seen so many together at once! Do
>> you think they've been breeding?
>
>Heh heh, yep. Maybe I should get the public to name them... some sort of
>'adopt a buggy' thing :)
>
>If anyone knows of any spare meccano anywhere then shout, btw - I
>wouldn't mind building a BBC-controlled robot arm for the museum
>sometime but really don't have the time to make something from
>scratch...

There are loads of references on Google under "Meccano spares", 
including a hoard found in Zimbabwe of all places!

But why not go for the same stuff the Buggy was made of? 
<http://www.fischertechnik.co.uk/>, follow the link to "Training Models" 
and there is one ready built. At a price, of course.
-- 
Ben Newsam