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Ralph Hempel wrote:
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> > In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Jim Choate) writes:
> > [snip]
> > > I've always wished Lego made flat plates that were circular with holes so
> > > one could make peg gears. Then it would be possible to build all sorts of
> > > midieval mechanisms (Viva DaVinci!).
> > [snip]
>
> But they DID, way, way back. I still have a set (2 Yellow 3 blue and 2 red)
> of the old BIG tooth gears. The yellow set is about the size of an
> 8x8 plate nad has a 5x5 grid of holes.
>
> The set has the old white Technic axles and red bushings. They also came
> with 3 or 4 grey bricks with holes everywhere.
>
> I ALSMOST traded these, but now that you mention it, they might come
> in kinda handy.
>
> Maybe Gary Istok can fill the group in on the history of these giant
> gear sets...
Am I absolutely dreaming, or was there an earlier set of gears which
were all grey? I seem to remember having Lego gears, but definitely
don't remember multi-color ones. Such a set would have been from the
early 70s (or possibly earlier if we found some discontinued set). Its a
real shame we no longer have our childhood Lego, we had a 4.5v train,
classic windows & doors, and other neat stuff (I also remember a
firetruck with a yellow ladder). I also remember the old style road
plates, though we never had them (are there pictures of those
anywheres?). I think the only baseplate we had was a standard 48x48 grey
baseplate (and I remember it being rather ragged about the edges).
The only specialty parts I remember having:
classic doors & windows
the opening doors
the ladder
wheels
the gears
the blue track
the 4.5v motor
red medium slopes (no peaks or corner pieces, just 2x2 and 2x4)
Boy were those days simpler...
Most of our Lego was purchased in europe (our original Lego was a gift
from a German co-worker of my fathers, they came to work in the U.S. for
a year or so and left us the Lego they had brought, more was purchased
in '72 when we took a summer in europe, and I suspect my dad picked up a
few sets on other trips).
--
Frank Filz
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| (...) I still have a lot of my Lego parts from 60s and 70s (some pictures of them at my site), but I'm pretty sure the first gears were the ones mentioned by Ralph. The largest was yellow, the medium one blue and the smaller red. Axles were white (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| (...) But they DID, way, way back. I still have a set (2 Yellow 3 blue and 2 red) of the old BIG tooth gears. The yellow set is about the size of an 8x8 plate nad has a 5x5 grid of holes. The set has the old white Technic axles and red bushings. (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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