March 2018 Meeting
Report from our Summer 2018 Newsletter
Saturday 24 March 2018
Falconwood Community Centre
Falconwood
This was one of our informal quarterly meetings where our members showed off their latest Meccano creations.
At around 2:00pm we had a short committee meeting, followed by the Model Tour in which members were invited to give a short talk about their models — in particular their entries for the Secretary’s Challenge!
The No Right-Angled Parts Secretary’s Challenge
This Challenge was concocted at the 2017 Hainault Hangout by Brian Leach and our Secretary. It was to build a model that doesn’t contain any right-angled parts in it. That means our members couldn’t use any Angle Girders, Flanged Plates, Trunnions, Angle Brackets or pretty much any other type of bracket except Obtuse Angle Brackets — members could use those, but bending any part into a sharp right angle would be deemed cheating!