LEGO incredibility

Lego is the best toy EVER.  Mostly because it's every toy (if every toy were reduced to little plastic voxels, and assuming your cheap-ass parents bought you enough lego).  And as an adult, I'd do unmentionable things for the lego robotics kit.  Santa??  And for the urbane, New Yorker crowd, Lego even makes a classic architecture series, eg: Wright's Fallingwater... in LEGO! 

Any Meccano?  Lincoln logs?  Really, just about any extensible, imagination-based building toy is awesome.

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Any Meccano?  Lincoln logs?  Really, just about any extensible, imagination-based building toy is awesome.

Yes - I almost forgot about our Meccano sets. They were awesome, and easy to expand. Hmmm...... I think I'll look for a Meccano set tonight online.

I have a few HO scale trains, but not enough room to set them up. Maybe I'll make an oval underneath the Christmas tree!!!! Choo choo choo.....!!!!!

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PociMANMfng]Mindstorm forklift[/url] (TubeYou) Way cool! Wish I was a kid again.

Im planning to get a chemistry set. Always wanted a good one

My house is actually my toy!  Took me a long time to afford a place of my own, but I have it. I have four buildings - house, garage, woodshed, and greenhouse. I'm adding a room probably every other year, and doing renovations. Maybe I won't order the Meccano set after all.

I hear ya Boom Boom. Sometimes I'd just like to hire some professionals to do things around here. Can't afford it. All I have is me to delegate tasks to. And I don't always take orders from me very well. At times it's down right mutiny.

I finished re-shingling the back half of the roof this fall and just before the first snow fall. Phew! Thank goodness for the $1200 bucks worth of scaffolding I bought a few years ago. It came in real handy. I think the front half will survive a few more seasons as it's a steeper pitch. Lots of small jobs to do with plumbing and re-doing a bathroom upstairs. I think I can handle it. Just need motivation is all.

For those of you who love to smash trains and cars against each other:

I showed that to a friend, and his response was: "wow, a demented toy maker, gotta love it !!!!!!"

If I win the lottery (if I ever buy a ticket) I'm going to drop a bundle on Rokenbok sets. They allow kids to build remote-control and programmable robots. Extremely tough, too, built for real-world conditions. Whenever I'm in London I drop in to the Toy Shoppe of London to drool over their Rokenbok layout and fantasize about building a working switching yard in the afternoons. (Mornings would be for writing the Great Canadian Novel.)

That's the trouble with rain, it can get where water can get. I don't know what to suggest. Perhaps a bead of tar-caulk along all overlapped joints might do the trick. It's messy but worth it if it works. I'd undo screws at each joint, caulk, and zip them up again. Oh metal roof! drool-drool. No more shingling for you.

I was just thinking that if it leaks during a driving wind with rain, then it's likely the rain. I have heard that condensation can collect on the bottom side of the metal as frost and then drip onto the decking. But it sounds like the driving wind and rain is the problem.

What kind of pitch is the roof, Boom Boom? Because the guy down the street put metal on the roof of his older home. And that roof was a steep pitch on north side and shallow angle and not far from flat on the back at that time. His roof wasn't too well insulated then, and he ended up with heat escaping and forming condensation on the under side of the metal and dripping. It ruined his new kitchen and living room ceilings. I know he changed the pitch at the back to allow for more cold space and venitlation, and installed more fiberglass bats in the ceiling. I'm not sure how it worked out for him because he sold the place not long after re-doing the drywall. I could check with the new owners to see if they've had problems since if you like?