Tooling
CO2 laser cutter

The DIY CNC milling machine is nice, but working with plating requires different tooling. Why not build a laser cutter myselfs? After reading a couple of blogs about creating a DIY laser tube, that seems to be too much work, while still generating an unreliable max.40 Watt laser beam. Still very cool, but actually I […]

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Vintage Toys - Collection
Elba - Moubal

Construction toy, manufactured by 'van Mouwerik and Bal', Dutch company Moubal, Zeist, The Netherlands, between 1939~1941. The full set consists of stamped cardboard material: trusses, floor tiles, walls & fences. More information + manuals: mobaco.nl/ElbaLearnings about Elba - remake. Patented Patent (NL49313C) was filed by Harmen Elsinga on 27 January 1939 and granted in September 1940. […]

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Vintage Toys - Collection
Mobaco - Moubal

Mobaco consists of thick cardboard base plate with square holes. Wooden columns of various heights could be inserted. With various cardboard like pannels a building structure could be created. Mobaco also used a very efficient building plan system and so having all parts are numbered. Mobaco came with many different sets (first two sets in […]

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Vintage Toys - Collection
Pulko Patent Baukasten - Pulkowski

Pulko is a wooden building construction set, with a ground plates, columns, infill plates & floors. Pulko was patented in 1919 by Erich Pulkowski from Dessau and manufactured in Lechenich (near Köln) by Holzbearbeitungswerk Lechenich, by Michael Engels. It was marketed by Carl Josef Bollig & Co., toy exporters from Mönchengladbach. The game exists in 4 languages: […]

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