She'll mend. Just send a No 10 Meccano set to Singapore.
Maybe not with those bits - utterly desirable though they are - but certainly with the sort of skills that a Number 10 Meccano set would have engendered.
Having said the #10 is desirable, I suspect that kit has never been used. Used rather than 'played with', because building Meccano projects was so much more than playing.
I note that Teresa Green admits to still having a set from childhood - I tell you what, I still have
my dad's Meccano! Most of it dates from the nineteen-twenties and is in a box my grandfather made. It has components modern Meccano fans would kill for. Not only which, I also have - rebuilt by me many times and not in very good condition - a
Meccano steam engine,
not the Mammod one.
My set hasn't been out of the loft for more than twenty years - my kids are not engineers, they are computer geeks and although they loved Technical Lego, they simply weren't up to the mighty Meccano.
Roger.