{"id":8,"date":"2022-04-02T17:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2022-04-04T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:04:37","slug":"new-meccano-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/new-meccano-page\/","title":{"rendered":"A ‘full-size’ Meccano Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A bit small for me, but 26″ tyres anyway. No brakes but working sprockets and chain. All genuine Meccano except for 6mm ball bearings and M4 long bolts (and nuts & washers to fit). And the tyres of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The finished bike, residing in the garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the completed wheels. Spoe tension is adjusted with bolts (almost like the real thing!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bottom bracket bearing, ready for cranks The balls are not<\/em> Meccano parts, which are too big.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the most difficult sections to design and assemble – the headset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pedals, cranks and chainwheel. I ran out of fishplates for the chain, and had to ‘import’ m4 bolts rather than buy loads of Meccano ones long enough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The finished frame and forks. Note teh extra support in front of the forks, it was impossible (for me, anyway) to mae teh forks rigig enough without.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Saddle underside: it’s slightly flexible, as it should be!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rear ‘sprocket;, using threaded pins to engage with the chain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oops! what happens when the inner tubes are pumped up too much!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bit small for me, but 26″ tyres anyway. No brakes but working sprockets and chain. All genuine Meccano except for 6mm ball bearings and M4 long bolts (and nuts & washers to fit). And the tyres of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quilkin.co.uk\/meccano\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}