Category: Special Features

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fairground-ride-18.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/index.php/portfolio-posts/fairground-ride/” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Image Gallery[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579392855201{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Fairground Ride Not too sure what to call this but it could be called a Fairground Ride. The unit sits on a cube which has an elevator lift to raise the rotating track to clear the…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/twin-a-frame-beam-pumping-engine-16.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/index.php/portfolio-posts/twin-a-frame-beam-pumping-engine/” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Image Gallery[/mk_button][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579458931656{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Scroll down for a video of the engine, below the text. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579458899919{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]This model is a kind of amalgam of the: A-Frame Beam Engine-by Philip Webb MP-93-1996 and the Twin Beam Pumping Engine…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/meccano_tower_crane_dscf7887_t.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://meccano.crabdance.com/meccano/Meccano_Tower_Crane_Arduino.html” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Read The Article[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1732466353196{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]David Williams’s  Arduino-controlled tower crane has a fascinating story, with lots of technical details. Click here to read all about it on David’s own site.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/gsm-20-giant-block-setter-43.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/index.php/portfolio-posts/gsm-20-the-giant-block-setting-crane/” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Image Gallery[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579395677268{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The GSM 20 – The Giant Block-setting Crane 1971 by G. E. Rudings of South Africa. Even though the leaflet text is quite clear, the illustrations of the gear box were puzzling. Thanks to Mr. David…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/vrr-railway-34.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/index.php/portfolio-posts/steam-locomotive-of-the-vitznau-rigi-rack-railway/” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Image Gallery[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579396488600{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Original design by Keith W Cameron, M.D., October 1978 Model rebuilt and instructions retyped with additional notes by Bruce Vanschepen. Text edited by Colin Hoare. The prototype for this model is a veteran steam locomotive illustrated…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bwe_fig_01_155t-min.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/index.php/portfolio-posts/bucket-wheel-excavator/” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Image Gallery[/mk_button][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bucket-wheel-excavator-instructions.pdf” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Instructions PDF[/mk_button][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bucket-wheel-excavator-images.zip” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Images .zip File[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579397021470{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]This model of an O&K (Orenstein and Koppel AG) bucket wheel excavator is…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1598281083823{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Rickshaw Man – Conceived with a Computer CAD Program and built in Meccano/Exacto Note: this article originally appeared on the SCMEC website (now shut down) and is reprinted with the kind permission of Phil Edwards, their former webmaster. A Rickshaw from South East Asia ~ 100 years ago … General views, with…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fig7ends.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579449239169{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]In 1998 I acquired what I though to be an unusual Meccano Set. It was not listed in any “official” Meccano Ltd. literature that I had seen at the time. Indeed, I still have not found any reference to the two sets discussed in this article. If…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cmn_200409_art_classes_page_1.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cmn_200409_art_classes.pdf” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Download PDF[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579448715650{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Every year the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, which is located in Owen Sound, Ontario, conducts a series of week long Summer Art Classes for children. These classes consist of five half-day sessions, and cover such diverse…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bill_bardutz-prairie_farm_report.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579458607180{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]I taped this video clip of Bill Bardutz on the Prairie Farm Report TV show a few years ago. The video and audio have deteriorated a bit unfortunately.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579458595383{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]