18 Oct
2005
18 Oct
'05
5:50 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
heh, fair call :)
Yep, some aspects of it seem a little bodgy - but then the PCB's quite
nice if I remember, and the curved clear 'lid' was a pretty good job.
The whole thing seemed halfway between a F-T product and someone's
bedroom hack :-)
(Incidentally, I need to find suitable replacement tyres for Bletchley's
buggies; they've nearly all decayed now - not sure if rubber O-rings
would work or be of the wrong substance and therefore too slippy. Yet
another job to get around to at some point!)
cheers
Jules
Actually, the
beams used for the BBC Buggy (which is of course F-T) are
metal of some flavour rather than plastic, so they've been around that
Those are the ones I am refering to.
Point is, much of my F-T is well over 30 years old now, so the BBC Buggy
is what I'd call 'modern' :-) Your comments
make me wonder what the history of the buggy was though -
did it start out as a F-T kit in its own right, or was it a joint effort
AFAIK it was never an F-T product. F-T never used stepper motors, and if
they had they would not have fitted them with screws through the grouves
of the blocks.