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Patrick Ryan
Grand Master
Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 680
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Monday, 21 November, 2016 - 07:52:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP
Amazing stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3KdpzL3Hkk
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Omar M. Shams
Grand Master
Username: omar

Post Number: 916
Registered: 4-2009
Posted on Monday, 21 November, 2016 - 19:29:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP
I loved the video.....
Amazing stuff.....
Thnaks for sharing this with us Patrick. This is what schools and technical colleges should be doing. Getting a whole class to build several sections to make one engine and for them to then learn Engineering and team wwork.

Omar
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Patrick Ryan
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Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 683
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Monday, 21 November, 2016 - 19:52:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP
Totally agree Omar.

Fine skills by hand thes days are very rare.
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Alan Dibley
Experienced User
Username: alsdibley

Post Number: 31
Registered: 10-2009
Posted on Monday, 21 November, 2016 - 19:56:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP
.....but I've seen with my own eyes, at an exhibition in UK a few years ago, a 1/5 scale Tiger tank driven by a WORKING scale V12 engine. Google "australian scale V12 tiger" or similar to find youtube videos of it running. It had a hiccup while it was running and I had the honour of being allowed to lend some tools to the Australian guy who built it. I felt very humble.

Alan D.
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Benoit Leus
Prolific User
Username: benoitleus

Post Number: 275
Registered: 6-2009
Posted on Tuesday, 22 November, 2016 - 02:58:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP
Not only a working miniature engine, but a whole working Ferrari too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWx-Lx99Ask
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Patrick Ryan
Grand Master
Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 686
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Tuesday, 22 November, 2016 - 08:59:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP
That's amazing Benoit.

How can one devote so much time to something like this in modern family life.
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Robert Noel Reddington
Grand Master
Username: bob_uk

Post Number: 1198
Registered: 5-2015
Posted on Wednesday, 23 November, 2016 - 03:23:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP
Benoit Leus

I saw the Ferrari on TV a few years back.
Absolutely hats off to the builder.

Patrick Ryan

Most nights I sit watching brain dead TV the above Ferrari excepted.

But what is Phelan going to do in Coronation Street now that Vinny has double crossed him and run off with the stolen money.
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Patrick Ryan
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Username: patrick_r

Post Number: 691
Registered: 4-2016
Posted on Wednesday, 23 November, 2016 - 06:30:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IP
Robert,

I don't think we get Coronation Street here, we have to worry about what's going on in the Bold & The Beautiful and the WORST TV show ever, Keeping Up With The Kardashians!!!!!!!!!