Gallery search results

Platen Printing Press

Supermodelo Rotativa Automática
Meccanoland Collection Spanish Supermodel Manual "Automatic Printing Press" dated 1947

Rotativa Automática
Meccanoland Collection Spanish Supermodel Manual "Automatic Printing Press" dated 1947

Rotativa Automática
Meccanoland Collection Spanish Supermodel Manual "Automatic Printing Press" dated 1947, Parts backpage Note that No 135 Protractor card is still mentioned in the parts list

Rare Spanish set of wooden rollers
Meccanoland Collection. Rare Spanish set of wooden rollers for the Spanish Supermodel Rotativa Automática "Automatic Printing Press"

Stop cylinder press
A 1940 style printing press made of old and new Meccano

Other view of the same press
The delivery or output side

Old printingpress in full production
Made from modern meccano. many colors . Model of printing press I used to work many years ago.

Platen Printing Press 2

Platen Printing Press 1
I was inspired to have a go at this particular model after reading an article entitled ‘My Return to Meccano’ by Stan Knight, which you can find on this site in the d...

Platen Printing Press 3

Cylinder Printing Press - John Bridger

Cylinder Printing Press - John Bridger

Printing Press - Norman Brown

Printing Press - Roger Burton

Printing Press - Roger Burton

Cylinder Printing Press - Charles Hatfield

Printing Press - Rob Mitchell

Automatic Rotary Printing Press (Close up)- Adrian Browne

Automatic Rotary Printing Press - Adrian Browne

General view of rotary printing press
Original plans published in 1947 in Spanish only.

Cylinder Printing Press Skegex 2012 BT.jpg

Printing Machine by Keith Burston
This wonderful machine has a row of rubber stamps, one for each letter of the alphabet. To spell a person's name it picks up one stamp at a time, pressing it on the ink p...

Meccano Heidelberg Platen Press_print 21
After many attempts, print number 21 was the first reasonable print. The quality of the print is of course below every thinkable standard. The backside of the print has b...

Spectators enjoy pressing this lever to drop the rod and let the train continue
Photo taken by Chris Shute

Press lever to drop rod

Late 50s outfit 3 box label, in good resolution and tidied up for printing

Vertical-Power-Press
Norman Brown

00 Manual (first sides)
The same Christchurch Meccano Club manual, formatted for printing on to A4 landscape paper to fold into an A5 booklet. This file contains one side of each sheet -- just ...

00 Manual (second sides)
The same Christchurch Meccano Club manual, formatted for printing on to A4 landscape paper to fold into an A5 booklet. This file contains the other side of each sheet --...

meccano notepaper-hires
sample of single page of small notepaper from the 1930-1932 sand colored small writing pad. Notice that the boy/cranes pic is shifted to the right. The small printing in ...

1920's electrical set
Set lid and view of lovely label. The small set box itself is aprox 6" x 9" x 1.5" deep to get an idea of it's size. The added banner rightly outlines that this set is an...

Detail of Platen Press Inking Plate and Rollers

Platen Press Side View

Detail Platen Press Flywheel

LH118 Lt. Field Gun
It is a bit more contemporary than my efforts for last years, which were of a foundry crane and a power press, this one is as near as I can get model of a 105 mm light fi...

Steam Engine seen from above
The steam flows fro the high pressure cylinder down right via the medium pressure cylinder in between to the low pressure cylinder top right.

Newspaper rotary printing machine
Spanish Meccano supermodel. It printed in two faces, cut, folded and piled small 4 page "newspapers" from a paper roll for cash register. Two special parts were added to ...

Loom
Spanish Meccano supermodel of the 1940's. It weaves a fabric wider and denser than the Binns Road models. It is achieved by two special parts added to the spare list, th...

RE Integration (3)
In its rightmost position the shifter shaft presses toward the round plate. So the connection of the chain wheel with the crossing pin is interrupted and the wheel is dis...

RE Integration (1)
First the shifter shaft, bearing three pinions, has to be assembled. A double bended strip embracing two of the three pinions carries a thick strip with a bevelled end. A...

Colonial Outfit 8 pre-war
Picture courtesy Tony Press

Colonial Outfit 8 pre-war - lower tray
Photo courtesy Tony Press

1951 manual outfits 7-8 without motors
In 1951 the No.2 Clockwork and EO20 Electric motors were withdrawn. The EO20 was of course reintroduced after only a short time.
Some 1951 printings of the manual...

Double-acting steel press

Double-acting steel press

Double-acting steel press

Theodolite protractor - suitable for printing
Cleaned up scan for printing out and making the model!

sieve
Just a large size, fine mesh kitchen sieve. The best way to use it at the end of each stage of the barrelling process is to press the convex side against the open top of...

The boiler cap and pressure relief valve
This is a combo of a filler cap and a safety over pressure valve. This one still moves and is not caked up so I think this engine was not run very much...There is a fibre...

Ready for printing
Black areas repaired, and background removed, this image will be printed onto the Waterslide paper.

Ready for Printing
Black areas repaired, and background removed, this image will be printed onto the Waterslide paper.

M215 1937 T20 transformer
Nice transformer with an interesting box. By 1937 transformers were generally sold without a plug whereas earlier they were sold with a plug for a light socket. This tran...

Paddle Wheel Shaft
The flat parts are for the fixing studs of the wheels. The tight fit of the roller bearing hole and the axle doesn't allow to shift it when there are grub pressure marks ...

display suggestion #1 from 1931 selling service book
This shows the 1929 type steam engine on the platform that Tony Press alerted us to. Its in the left hand bottom corner of picture.

Low Pressure Turbine
With this simplified model of a steam turbine the procedure of bringing heavy equipment onboard the ship can be simulated. On exhibitions usually children act as “marsh...

Clockwork Motor
The original is powered (just) by a clockwork motor - this is changed to allow the connection to the steam engine by moving the bevel gears so neither engages. Another c...

1991 - L.N.E.R. High-Pressure ’No. 10000' Loco
The locomotive was motorised with the tender holding the battery box and PDU with universal coupling drive to the working valve gear.

Also on the tender, provision was...

Motor
Power is supplied by a low geared 12v motor via a clutch made from a bossed half inch pulley fitted with a 452 tyre and pressed up against a part 27f multipurpose gear wh...

2000 - South African Railways “Mallet” 2-6-6-0
The prototype was built by the North British Locomotive Company in 1912 to accommodate a large high-pressure boiler providing maximum power on the 3 foot 6 inch gauge tr...

Model 1956/6
Printing Machine, Original dealer model photo from a Australian dealer

Manual, 1911-1913
Meccano Manual for the German Market Meccano G.m.b.H, Berlin C.2, Burgstrasse 28, Bürohaus Borse. Because in 1911 the co-operation with Weimar ended due to a dispute ab...

The Boy Who made a $1,000,000 With a toy. 1915
Meccanoland Collection Picture of the press department in the factory 141 pages. 6 full-page b/w photographs of the Meccano factory. In-text b/w illustrations throughout

E2 a motor 2
Note the torsion spring centred on the small retaining screw - the free end of which puts pressure on the back of the brush. Quite an elegant arrangement and possibly un...

Early nut and bolt boxes
Now, these are the later tin boxes. The bottom three rows are all different - the top row are all duplicates. (Unfortunately ?) they are all sealed, so I don't know wha...

04-Manual dated Jan 1963
There may have been only this one printing of 25,000 of these manuals that did the entire run from 1963-69.

03-same 1963 manual
The manual did not change either. It had a print run of 25,000 in Jan of 1963 and this seemed like it lasted the entire set run? If there was another printing, it used th...

300 Working
One thing Meccano never made clear is that SML27 is not complete as they modelled a machine on the testing grounds at Lincoln. The conditions in India were incredibly dus...

06-sides are folded down
This forms a void in the bottom of the compartment so the bosses are not pushed back up thru the holes under shipping handling pressures.....

30-raised card
Again, the sides are folded to create the gap to take the pressure off the bosses during handling.

44-manual still the same
Manuals for this run include the printing code dates:258/10, 859/10, 260/15, 1160/10 and 361/10. It should be noted that the contents of the outfit B manual are different...

62-reinforcing needed
Looks like the cello wrapping process needed some more support so a piece of corragated cardboard is pressed into service!

73-closer look at sticker fix!
The sticker is pressed into service once again....

82-dating the boxes
Boxes of this era are easy to date. The date of the printing is on an end flap. eg. 41807 11-72 and 53784 5-75 are 2 that I have....

91-backs of the 3 versions of the 1970's gears manuals
This shows the printing marks of the 3 versions

1920-21 Meccano dealer advertising brochure
A rare early brochure aimed at dealers, detailing printing blocks, lantern slides, models and the early dealer cabinet. Undated, but price list matches manuals for 1920-...

1934 Lighting Set printing label.jpg

Set6 4
Note the little wire X's which show where the worms are secured. Where the clips are not pressed completely flat, perhaps these are parts that have been off the card at ...

06-C3-green and C4 black as possibilities?
I have never seen the card of cord with green or black cord but lets leave the possibility! These examples are from Tony Press and he indicates the the last 2 are repos( ...

84-F1-B-French cord-blue/green?
Same as the red version of the 1920's and 30's. I have seen pictures of sets in the gallery with these hanks and the red ones insitu. These ones are from Tony Press.

83-F1-R-French cord-prewar-red
I guess we also have to include the French Meccano hanks of cord that crop up now and then in our collections too...This one is from the 1920's/30's and the distinction o...

US_1X_7
This is an interesting anomaly, apparently unique to the US market - not a printing error. This same attribution is also found on the dealer cabinet labels of the era an...

Windmill Display Model in Embassy Foyer
This photo was taken by Geoff Brown, and was used for publicity purposes in the local press, to advertise the SkegEx show.

The nuts and bolts are all wood, as ...

Very strange 50t gear !
What does one make of this? A 50t 1-1/2" gear???? Possibly a large contrate that has not been pressed to shape? [I am very grateful to Richard Payn for this as well!]

Part No. 19A
A confusion particular to the US market, or so it would appear: The spoked wheel without boss was the first part to get number 19A (known simply as a Wheel). Soon after...

Henry Porter Vertical Press 1

Henry Porter Vertical Press 2

Hoisting Mechanism (3)
The 6 mm Ø drum axles are supported by brass sleves fixed by bushing clamps. Pressing the round button below (which is a knurled screw M3) releases the spring loaded rat...

Primus Printing Block
Presumably this was issued to dealers as a Primus advertising stamp. It appears to show a No. 4 Outfit.

46a-newly discovered Type 5a gear set!
Thanks to the eagle eye of Andrew Lance, a new variety of gears set B has been uncovered. It is the top one in the picture. The standard Type 5 of late 1958-61 is on the ...

46ab-try again for a large picture! and the pic magically appears on the previous slide by magic?
Thanks to the eagle eye of Andrew Lance, a new variety of gears set B has been uncovered. It is the top one in the picture. The standard Type 5 of 1959-61 is on the botto...

1925 Brough Superior SS100
The SS100 was powered by a J.A.P. 980cc twin cylinder engine and fitted with Brough's patented "Castle" forks.
The model incorporates a three speed gear-box with the...

Teleboom 12 - extend mechanism
The guide rollers with chain construction is maintenance free, and needs only to be removed if I want to do a boom inspection. The pair of flanged rollers have two ball-b...

Teleboom 10 - bottom view
The cylinder is a steel tube of 850 mm, 33,5" length and is mounted under the 2nd boom section. This isn't the preferred solution from an engineering point of view, thoug...

Pricelist 1918 Meccano Marklin
Pricelist October 1918 Meccano Märklin Manual The price for a No 6H oufit was increased from Mk 260,- to Mk 280,-. The printing date of this manual without the updated ...

Pricelist 1919 Meccano Marklin
The price for a No 6H oufit was increased from Mk 340,- to Mk 375,- The printing date of this manual without the pink pricelist can be linked to a ad with a price of 340,...

016-Looks like pieces of meccano boxes
These are the compartments from an old meccano box pressed into duty to hold parts.

050-all the literature displayed
all dated 1928 except the electrical manual. There were only 2 printings 1920 and 21. The #135 thodolite protractor card is a repo from MW models. Anyone got a spare orig...

03a-another view w/glass installed
Of course, the original glass is gone and would have been a beggar to ship anyways....I had a new piece cut to the appropriate size and one would be hard pressed to tell(...

Platen press with minder
Based on a model out of Meccano mag 1938. With the use of modern meccano mainly Mec. workshop and some other parts.

Same platen press as before
This time open ready to be fed with paper

No.1 Car Constructor made as 4-seat tourer
The instruction leaflet for the No.1 car constructor makes explicit mention of 4 different models that can be made with the outfit but the front of the leaflet shows a 5t...

Eric Taylor Crane
Now pressing on with plating the chassis. Also the machinery house temporarily installed to check the mesh of the slewing pinion. Construction has shifted from the loft r...

French 1954 #0 repro small parts box
All the required pieces for the #0 outfit are inside. Result after editing the template and printing, cutting, folding and glueing it.

Steam Engine 1929 above
The only thing missing is the compression spring to keep the cylinder pressed against the steam block. The flywheel is has some fatigue but is still in one piece.

1917 Inventor's Accessory Outfit
Despite only being available for about 7 years the contents of this outfit went through a number of changes. Here the 3" wheels are the early spoked type with no boss an...

Trevithick High Pressure Steam Dredger Engine of 1806 - Brian Edwards

10-manual printing data
This particular printing shows it to be the 1st version in 1970. Dates the set to the 1st year anyways....There are 4 manuals in total.

9-1st look inside!
The set had a large set of manuals. This is the 1st clue as to it's age. These will be shown to be the 1st printing. Nice and crisp and clean inside! All the trays are ce...

Little Joe Loco (Tricky Track) - Chris Shute
By mounting the Powerdrive motor at an angle, the noisy, inefficient worm can be replaced with a small pinion driving a Contrate.
Battery life is also extended by a...

Trevithick High Pressure Steam Dredger Engine of 1806 - Oct 2012
Shown Oct 2012

1920 No.6 Outfit Small Parts boxes
As far as I can tell this style of small parts box, with a picture bordered by grey strips with stars, was only available in 1920 and is a sort of hybrid of the earlier l...

Paper, part 2
The Super Model leaflets, all US printing. Print references: Platform Scales, No. 7, O-0728/2; Bagatelle Table, No. 9, O-0728/2; Log Saw, no. 10, O-0728/1; Steam Engine,...

US Meccano Set 60
These well made boxes are 2-3/4" square by 1-5/16" deep (with the lid pressed down).

US Meccano Set 60
The pattern of chimney adapter, boiler end and propeller blade are of the earlier style compared to UK production. I think this is because the old UK press tools were se...

24-remains of guarantee label
Again the bulk of the label is missing but we can deduce from the label's printing info itself that this is probably an earlier set.

25- This complete set has both manuals
The manuals are quite striking in their art work and typical of the age.....The manuals are both 1st runs and dated May 1933 so adding to the evidence that this is an ear...

Elektron slip.jpg
The slip in the box lid - the spanner is there to keep it flat. The printing is very faint but looks like E 2 9 38 - and I know 38 seems very late for one of these big ...

Dublo printing blocks
Always on the lookout for items to add to my collection. Must be original but condition not too important hornera1971@gmail.com 07918711782 (UK)

Elektrikit 1.jpg
I bought c.15 of these (a long time ago now!) from the fondly remembered MW Models. This was also at a time when they sold used as well as new spares. Whilst the centr...

No. 10000 High Pressure Locomotive - Wilf Hicken (front view)

No. 10000 High Pressure Locomotive - Wilf Hicken

Ball Type Differential – 01
Detailed view. The correct function depends strongly on the parallelism of the two discs and the spring pressure. Due to the imperfections of this realization the transmi...

Penstock and turbine
The small tube projected from the right end of the dam, going to the turbine room, is the penstock, which supplies water under pressure to the turbine, for its functioning.

A brass Wheel without any Meccano stamp.
Until now i know just a steel pressed Wheel with only 6 holes. But a brass Wheel with 6 holes and without Meccano stamp its new for me.

Cylinder.jpg
The drivers side of the cylinder is far plainer. Also you can see the cross heads. There are two rods going forward to the cylinder from the controls - the righthand of ...

Pressure Gauge.jpg
Another view of the footplate showing the pressure guage - the steam tap in the middle of the picture should be the steam supply to the injector on the back tank.

Drill Press

Clutch mechanism in open position
The lever is not pressing against the two screw heads projecting form the contrate.

Clutch mechanism in open position
A flat (non-meccano) spring between the two contrates holds them apart. The coupler is ortated to release the pressure on the contrate.

Printing machine
Built by Paul Furness for the Sector Plate theme

Printing Machine Display Model - Jim Gamble

Printing Machine Display Model - Jim Gamble

special plates
These are the special plates I made to avoid bending my flexible plates, a modified low profile smoke deflector and wheel splash covers because triangular flexible plates...

07-later pressed out notch on slide
This lug is embossed and the strongest of all!

Ramp Mechanisms
The back of the truck is at the bottom of this photo. The lower handwheel (on the right, in relation to the photo) operates the two winding drums through a 3:1 reduction...

Completed Model, right side
This model of a stage coach and horses from the 19th century American West was designed to function in an unsupervised museum or hobby show environment. For ease of setu...

Spanish part 105a for loom
The comb of the Spanish loom Supermodel took 60 of these thin spring steel parts, separed by thin pressed fiber washers, so the fabric it made was thicker than the Binns ...

10-the original yellow lining paper.
This paper just floated off the strawboard so could be pressed and then set aside to be re-attached to the box as lining again after assembly.

14-parts are pressed flat
This is more of the box internal partitions and voids that have been pressed, etc.

15-the carton base-not a pretty sight!
The carton's base was mostly there and could be salvaged. One side needed a replacement piece but the rest just needed steamed and pressed. All of the original red outer ...

13-more carton innards to be ironed flat
The strawboard parts are all pressed/steamed and laid flat for a few hours. Then any parts are glued and replaced ready for re-assembly back into a carton!

28-roll-over of ends
Both the top and under neath are glued and rolled over and pressed flat using a wood stick. Corners are bunched and trimmed. Soon be ready for the top piece of paper...

Rim drive and clutch
The wheel is driven through a tyre engaging with the rim (in the right of the picture), this is mounted on a bogie with a compression spring keeping it in constant pressu...

Mamod TE1a Traction Engine: Ploughing Winch Test Bed
This TE1a was used as the test bed for the ploughing drum winch. However, it could not be used for the actual steaming as the flywheel on this age of models is press fitt...

026-remnants of the label
The guarantee label was half there! It shows a label printing date a year earlier than the introduction of these sets so one could conclude this is an early set and they ...

Model 9.5 High Speed Press

Roller for printer
This part was added to the Spanish parts list in the 50's. It was made specifically for the Supermodel "Rotativa" an automatic printing machine.It was given nr 168d. Ther...

Mill and drill press
The left hand side of my man cave showing the Chester Champion mill and a Clarke drill press.

Printing Machine - Roger Burton

Mec2014 - Chris Instone
A combination of a MEC1 chassis and cylinder/piston assembly fitted with the latest Mamod marine vertical boiler. The engine is gas fired and is fitted with a condensing ...

Printing Machine - Roger Burton

Outfit 3A: Flanged and Grooved Wheels
Märklin kept the flanged and grooved wheel #20 until 1999 when the production was stopped. Only the form of the holes and the boss had been modified through the years. F...

20 Flanged wheel standard-type boss Single Tapped
20 Flanged wheel, No pulley section, one-part pressing, 4 holes, standard-type boss, Single Tapped, o/a diam 1 3/8, 35 mm, ¼" 6.25mm flange, stamped circular Meccano thr...

Schmidt Offset Coupling
Used in the printing industry, machines can be kept running whilst adjustments are made. Can be out of alignment by about 2 1/2" in any direction. More triangular plates ...

Model 8.14 Power Press

Schmidt Offset Coupling 011.jpg
Used in the printing industry. See The Meccano Library. This is my fourth version! You can use as many triangular plates as you want, within reason. The more plates the l...

Schmidt Offset Coupling 013.jpg
A device used in the printing industry. The model will run up to 2 1/2" out of line, also in two directions. It is basically a posh type of universal joint. Please note t...

Schmidt Offset Coupling, 2 of 2
Used in the printing industry. Video

Meccano Steam Engine (MEC1)
Close up of steam/pressure dome, water level plug and piston/cylinder assembly. MEC1 Meccano steam engine circa 1965-1976. Made by Mamod for Meccano. Photo' originally ta...

1925 Brough Superior SS100 - Terry Allen
The SS100 was powered by a J.A.P. 980cc twin cylinder engine and fitted with Brough's patented "Castle" forks.
The model incorporates a three speed gear-box with the...

01-rare and minty MME sets
Note how bright the illustrated tin 's printing is!

Jack & Johnny
Jack Parsisson taught Johnny how to make Meccano using stamping and pressing machines. Then Johnny got to fill a bag full of the real stuff. ☺

Model 5.01 Power Press
Note use of Large Driving Band rather than Cord which does not work very well. 349 Parts Model Index 74.01

Model 5.01 Power Press
Powered by a Power Drive Motor. Works well on 12 Volts and 3:1 reduction

Meccano Sets Christmas 2014
Christmas pressie meccano sets from christmas 2014.

Main Station
This is the main station on the layout, formed of alluminium Hornbu Dublo buildings from the 1950's/early 1960's. On the right, alongside the main station building is pla...

Travelling Post Office Set Down & Pick Up Point
This is just about the most fun accessory you can get in Hornby Dublo. Unlike the triang version, which was mechanical, this one is 12v DC or 15v AC powered. You press a ...

A Simple Rod Straightener
With care this will help re-straighten distorted axle rods and it's simple to use: 1. Pass the rod through the reinforced plate flanges and the short coupling. 2. Adjus...

44-gluing the corners of new tray
Again, I use the carton base where the new tray will ultimately live as a clamping aid. The vinyl sheet prevents glue escapes ruining the project! The shims are used to c...

Circuit 24 Go-Kart set
Note the oil bottle still in its plastic bag. The rather nice manual is the later and much rarer UK printing of the Circuit 24 manual; identified by the yellow lower...

16-Box lid in a flattened state!
This lid was a little more fragile as the previous water damage made it thin in places and it also is completely covered with the blue illustrated label paper. Same steam...

21-I found some modern staples....
These are about the right size and guage as the originals. They will work fine! They are pressed into the old locations and then bent and flatten with a set of needle nos...

19-Base has been repaired and ready for next step
With the base flattened, straightened and now glued and tissue reinforced, it can now be reassembled like it was before. The old staples were beyond saving so we will pre...

27-another view of the clamping and gluing
Both the base and the lid get glued in places where the material is just not "behaving" with just the staples. Water damage has made a mess in places! Clamps and elastic ...

Torque limiting mechanism
This is an improved version of the torque limiting mechanism. The input is a pinion driving the 57 tooth gear, which is loose on the output shaft. A ratchet is fixed to t...

Top idlers
These were pressed down with two tension springs making the driving very hard. I removed the springs and trapping the frame arm with two fishplates such that the idlers j...

Marble Bouncer, Ball in flight!
Note the position of the marble, this took quite a few attempts to achieve. It's more trial & error. You've got to press the shutter before the marble arrives! Try it and...

Meatballs 2015
Release device. Press down on long bolt, and short rod withdraws from connecting strip.

07-misc prewar sacks-standard size-16 grams
Next we have a set of again of standard size and weight but the printing is a very large font diagonally and color is back to dark blue .

06-misc prewar sacks-standard size-15 grams
Again, a selection from my collection that are slightly different. "Standard" size at 1.25" x 1.75" and in the middle f the pack as far as weight at 15 grams. They retain...

15-1933 instruction sheet for T20A transformer
This one is larger and is double sided. I scanned the English side. Click on bigger pic to get a large one for printing

Use of sliding 3D printed gear in gantry crane
Detail of 3D printed gear used in sliding contact with moving gantry. Printing the gear allows the creation of a square hole, which slides on a 4mm square shaft that runs...

Formation of printed gear.
In order to create a gear with a"double boss" it is necessary to provide support to the body of the gear during printing. In this case the printer lays down a fine suppor...