Mechanical things that make you go…."Oh my, that's lovely!"

CharlieMungus – Member

So, the guns are ok, but the sex toy not. Which would be least appropriate for a child to have access to?

I played cowboys and indians as a kid. I never played cowboys and machine-assisted masturbators.

Also the guns are serious responses to the thread, content not punchlines. If you post up a really mechanically interesting and aesthetically pleasing vibrator, maybe that’ll be OK 😉

Its all fab I would buy whole lot if the loto came up this week,apart from the guns and that Kona shut & cut what going on there? yuk.

CharlieMungus – Member
So, the guns are ok, but the sex toy not.

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So, the guns are ok, but the sex toy not

I played cowboys and indians as a kid. I never played cowboys and machine-assisted masturbators.

should’ve dug around your parents bedroom a bit more 😈

althepal

Easy, tis the Caspian Sea Monster.

Here’s a few of my pics of things mechanical;

Tiger 131

Lancia Stratos

Blackmoor Vale’s drive rod

And a bit of camera pron

Also the guns are serious responses to the thread, content not punchlines. If you post up a really mechanically interesting and aesthetically pleasing vibrator, maybe that’ll be OK

Well, the point was double edged, yes the ramapant rabbit makes people say “oh my, that’s lovely” but also in design terms it represented a large step change in the design and functionality of vibrators. If you take the time to look at the design and think about the it’s use, you will see the synergy of form and function which is present in an only in, all great design classics. The rampant rabbit is so well recognised as a classic that it actually features in the Design Museum on the South Bank. Yet it somehow fails to meet some individual’s criterion on here. Oh well, can’t expect the provinces to be as ‘hip’ as that there London.

Teej my old man was a vampire pilot.

I cannot believe this hasn’t been posted.. Crap pic but the Harrier rocks.

Ooh, nice klunk – to save anybody else searching, http://www.instructables.com/id/Ornithopter/ <off to find some coffee stirring sticks>

If you’re submitting that toys, then you’ve got to have this

Though to get away from the cars and planes here’s a modern implementation of a really old one

A bit more down to earth. I remember truly lusting after a T140 Bonneville – I had a Trophy 250 at the time. Triumph were advertising in the mags – IIRC the Bonnie was something like £560

toys ? full size ornithopters are a bit thin on the ground

you must have me blocked klunk.

who said that ?

Always loved Mamood miniature steam engines – we had one when we were kids and I remember happy times setting it up with our dad and the great smell of meths.

100!

How about

Sorry, but for some reason Klunk’s image reminded me of it.

I do like some of the steampunk stuff;

but you can’t beat a big bit of industrial machinery for ‘gosh that looks interesting I wonder how it works’ type stuff;

I love the factory visit phot assignments in Rouleur.

styling by wacky races, love it 😀

Some Italian art…. 🙂

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And from the rear….

The 28×28 wheel drive vehicle used to move the telescopes around at the Atacama Large Millimeter Array as featured on the Horizon episode “seeing Stars”

More Italian Art, love it ! (crap photo)

LHC, CERN

BRM V16 – lovely car, engine and the sound always makes the hairs on the back of my hair stand up.

Standing next to one at Silverstone as they warmed it up is one of my abidign memories. 40 blokes all stood round grinnign with blood runnign out of their ears. One of the few cars you could hear doing a whole lap of the circuit.

The world’s largest earth mover by German firm Krupp.

Not beautiful by any stretch but Jesus – it’s bloody massive. Imagine the size of its balls 😆

EDIT: @ Klunk – hmmm….quite a disturbing picture of cammo compound bow on slightly cripsy bottom sheet…

derek – better representation of it’s awesomeness:

Newsprint machine at Palm Paper in Kings Lynn.

Stoner – I feel like I need a long hot shower after that, I somehow feel sullied. What a disturbing piece of film.

*reaches for Foamburst*

Some Italian art

meh – we’ve already had plenty of threads with pics like that

i’m not usually a fan of ‘old stuff’ – but i do like the mechanism of a sewing machine, it’s really clever. and i like the pedal-powered nature of the old singers.

they make a lovely sound too.

Firstly there’s this. Mankind’s greatest achievement in my humble opinion:

Then there’s this. You can forget your F-16s or Tornados, this is what I went to airshows in the 1980s to see as a child:

And I’m also a bit of a Mk2 Golf nerd too:

Rusty, is the hangar in that picture far away or too small? If it is the latter they will pop the airship when they try to put it away.

This..

Then this..