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Re: Has anyone noticed this? Is it even important?
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.general
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Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:25:56 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Anthony Sava wrote:
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In a recent discussion over at Classic-Castle about maces, something came to
my attention.
The whole discussion is over this:
It’s a design for a minifig mace that I’ve been using for five years or so.
I’ve never had a problem with it, but those who have never tried this style
of mace before have complained that this design is flawed. For them, the 8
toothed technic gear does not stay on the rod, it slips. For me, I’ve
actually seen these gears crack because the fit was so tight.
So I did some checking through Peeron. Only one version of the 8 toothed
gear. Same with Bricklink, only one version.
But when I started digging through my collection, I noticed that there is, in
fact, two different versions of the 8 toothed gear.
The older version (left) has much sharper edges than the newer version
(right), which has rounded edges. These rounded edges on the newer versions
means there is less plasic inside the technic hole, and thus less plastic to
grip the rod for the mace design.
The teeth on the two gears also differ. The older style gear has thinner,
longer teeth than this newer gear.
Another noticable difference is the newer gear has a lip around the technic
hole. It seems that both gears have a sort of a lip around the hole on one
side, where the ‘teeth’ in the technic hole are rounded to allow the technic
axle an easier time of being pushed through the gear. However on the older
gear, on the other side, the ‘teeth’ are flush with the edge of the gear,
there is no lip there. With the newer gear’s opposite side, there’s a
noticable lip where the ‘teeth’ don’t reach the edge of the gear. You can
almost see this in the picture.
Also, though this is not very important, the light grey color on my newer,
pre-2004 new style 8 toothed gears (the four or five I have) is a different
shade than the older gears. Perhaps a different plastic was used? Or maybe
a different temperature was used in making it? Maybe a whole new color onto
itself? I don’t know, I’m not knowledgable in these things.
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Hi Anthony and All,
I definitely think that this is a different plastic. A softer (and slightly
different colored) one. (Not unlike 1x1 lightgrey plate with clip when compared
to regular 1x1 lightgrey plate.) I’ve noticed this change some years ago when my
fingers stopped to hurt whenever i took the gear off from the axle. (I.e. the
old ones hurt, the new ones don’t:-) As for Technic ends, i see it as an
improvement; as for other ends, like the one you mention, it is not, since, as
far as my experience goes, the new ones don’t stay at all on the rods while the
old ones stay. Stay too much, indeed!:-)
Best regards,
Paulo Renato
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Is this something that needs to be addressed? Has this already been
addressed? Should there be an official differentiation between the two
designs? Does anyone even care? Or is this just something castle-heads need
to worry about alone?
--Anthony
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