Haynes engine build

Thus spake maxi ( snipped-for-privacy@so.com) unto the assembled multitudes:

That looks similar (though with only four cylinders) to a Revell "Visible V8" plastic model kit I built about 30 years ago. The first time I turned it over with the batteries, the crankshaft broke.

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Thus spake Clint Sharp ( snipped-for-privacy@clintsmc.demon.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:

Aha, yes, this was the one I had:

In message , snipped-for-privacy@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk writes

Some of them look really good fun, might sneak one on the credit card...

'What, nooo, I've had this for ages/got it off freecycle/eBay really cheap'

Thus spake Clint Sharp ( snipped-for-privacy@clintsmc.demon.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:

They're fun to build, but once finished you won't quite know what to do with it (especially if it breaks on it's first "run" like mine did) and it'll sit on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. Mine has long since been buried in a landfill site somewhere.

Excellent as an educational tool, perhaps.