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Meccano is a Gen X (and older) boyhood right of passage. My innocent days were that cusp of Boomer to X, the latter being how I identify, despite most picking me as a boomer. I remember a toybox under my bed, full of Lego and Meccano. My train set, a Hornby, of course, was for most of its useful life on a table that was hinged to the wall to rest on my bed posts. My dad was ingenious like that. And then we grow up... I never have, by conventional wisdom. I've had lego most of my life, still do. So it was that my 63rd birthday was a haul of Lego and, for the first time since the 70s, Meccano. It's not an English brand, anymore, French, I think, but it's true to its roots, while well modernised and updated. So, seeing as my major public project is a robotic drum kit, and the hardest part of the design and prototyping has been figuring out how to do hi-hat control, my new Meccano's first task was to roughly model the "dual de-clutched" lever mechanism to lift th