Fischer-Technik was a construction toy along simmilar lines to Lego Technic. In the UK it was marketed mainly as an educational toy and bought mainly by secondary school to fill their store cupboards. It was more popular in Germany where it originated. Which is where the several boxes of the stuff that have been in my parents loft have been for the lost 20-25 years. For some reason my dad decided to pull it all out at the weekend, which made bank holiday Monday afternoon and evening at there's much more enjoyable!
Unfortunately all the instructions have gone missing so I had to make it up as I went along, but would have spent almost as much time using this "in period" as I did Lego, so I had a pretty good Idea how to get on.
I kicked off before dinner with a four wheel, sort of unimog-ish style truck, and a go-kart/single seater style racing car.
As can sort of be seen in the pics, the main construction method is the grey blocks that slide together, with various other universal and single use parts.
The car has rack and pinion steering, the truck has a bell crank on the steering column operating the steering, it also has coil springs on both axles.
After tea I got a bit more ambitious and filled up the hydraulics. These use cylinders much like the lego pneumatics but without the facility to store air pressure, and obviously filled with liquid not air, in this case water. Obviously great fun was had by my brother and I years ago with just the cylinders.
Only being able to find one connecting tube I had to come up with a scheme that only had one action - inspired by the similarity in style and proportions to the recent Lego Unimog kit, I opted for a snow plough.
Cool wheels from the smaller models I think must be responsible for something!
Unfortunately all the instructions have gone missing so I had to make it up as I went along, but would have spent almost as much time using this "in period" as I did Lego, so I had a pretty good Idea how to get on.
I kicked off before dinner with a four wheel, sort of unimog-ish style truck, and a go-kart/single seater style racing car.
As can sort of be seen in the pics, the main construction method is the grey blocks that slide together, with various other universal and single use parts.
The car has rack and pinion steering, the truck has a bell crank on the steering column operating the steering, it also has coil springs on both axles.
After tea I got a bit more ambitious and filled up the hydraulics. These use cylinders much like the lego pneumatics but without the facility to store air pressure, and obviously filled with liquid not air, in this case water. Obviously great fun was had by my brother and I years ago with just the cylinders.
Only being able to find one connecting tube I had to come up with a scheme that only had one action - inspired by the similarity in style and proportions to the recent Lego Unimog kit, I opted for a snow plough.
Cool wheels from the smaller models I think must be responsible for something!