Very Very Rare Find

[CopyKat]

While out at the cottage I was reminded that I had a box to take home. I had completely forgot about it. There are some pieces missing but it's not something you can look on Ebay and find. It doesn't look like anything was ever made. The bags have been opened and I've yet to go through the parts list and inventory what is missing. Some of the parts are not replaceable however

This is what I have.

http://www.hansotten.com/philipsme1200.html

 

[metalmacguyver]

Wow! That looks like it is definately part of what made you the person you are today.

 

[Ranger44]

That's pretty cool....

 

[CopyKat]

It is pretty cool. Just too bad some of the pieces are missing.

I may just have to duplicate some, so that I can keep the kit as it sits intact.

I'm amazed at the lack of info regarding this kit. Sounds like I stubled upon a vintage kit. The stuff this kit can do combined with the EE1200 (Electrical Kit) is just plain amazing. One of the cars that can be made Drives and when it gets dark the car will reduce speed and turn it's headlights on.

Instruction booklet has 1966 print date on it. I know that doesn't mean a whole lot but it does show the vintage.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Wow, that's older than me.....

 

[crbnunit]

HEY! I had one of those!

 

[Mark_88]

I think I wanted one of those when I was a kid...I got a Frosty Sno-Cone maker instead...but I liked that too...

 

[KELLY88]

Wow that's really cool. Would have loved to have something like that as a kid. Maybe physics would have made more sense. The best I got was K'NEX with a couple motors. Still fun to mess with though. Nice find. Hang on to something like that.

 

[CopyKat]

HEY! I had one of those!

Is that showing a sign of your age Jeff??

 

[maitee1]

That does look very intersting and cool.

 

[Danger FX4 Ranger]

Too bad the directions are..............not in english.

 

[CopyKat]

Too bad the directions are..............not in english.

The kit I have has the english instructions. That is not my site and "My" kit. The one I have is the same kit, minus a few parts.

 

[Will]

I had a Radio Shack dealeo with all these transistors and capacitors and resistors and transformers surface mounted with spring terminals and a bunch of jumper wires. You put together annoying chirps and beeps and sirens with it. And there was an LED number thing and you could make it count and spell dirty words.

We had the Erector set as well. I bought a new one for my son. The new one sux because the motor runs too fast and it relies on little plastic pulleys and rubber bands to reduce the speeds. The pulleys use little rubber rings to retain them on the shafts and it doesn't work. The old all-steel kits with set screws were very reliable once you built something--it worked. The new ones just buzz themselves to pieces. Very disappointing.

That kit reminds me of a combination of the 2 I had as a wee lad. Before I started drinking and smoking cigarettes and things and when my parents still thought I could be something good.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I had one of those circuit boards too, it was a lot of fun.

Erector set was neat too, I got mine used and the motors didn't work though. I did make a bunch of different things for my 1/16th scale tractors (trailers, implements and such)

Lego's were my specialty, off road trucks, racecars, tanks, airplanes from business jets to fighter planes (prop or jet) to bombers with a crude but working bomb bay, ships, boats, submarines... it was awesome.

I was never one to build things to plan, I was always tweaking stuff to try to make it better.

 

[snake]

I had a Radio Shack dealeo with all these transistors and capacitors and resistors and transformers surface mounted with spring terminals and a bunch of jumper wires. You put together annoying chirps and beeps and sirens with it. And there was an LED number thing and you could make it count and spell dirty words.

We had the Erector set as well. I bought a new one for my son. The new one sux because the motor runs too fast and it relies on little plastic pulleys and rubber bands to reduce the speeds. The pulleys use little rubber rings to retain them on the shafts and it doesn't work. The old all-steel kits with set screws were very reliable once you built something--it worked. The new ones just buzz themselves to pieces. Very disappointing.

That kit reminds me of a combination of the 2 I had as a wee lad. Before I started drinking and smoking cigarettes and things and when my parents still thought I could be something good.

Hell, you turned out to be a super moderator- I'm sure they were eventually proud. Sorta.