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| (...) I do speak Dutch, so my translation of (URL) would be: New 'cool' Hydraulic system! With the new hydraulic system, the cabine opens incredibly easy. That's cool! You can use this part in other models aswel. For instance, try to make a car (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Thanks for the translation! Snipped for brevity.... (...) Great. The juniorization of Technic. Perhaps 3 seperate, pictured poly- bags and individual instructions for each section. (...) Interesting......... (...) The wheels on the '98 Technic sets (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Front wheel drive? Is that steering wheel drive? This puzzles me. (...) This seems to confirm my suspicion that the hydraulic piece simply provides a damped spring, pretty much like when you press eject on a cassette deck. But I'm only (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) They are? So they are not simply chrome coated plastic? In that case, I apologize for the erroneous article I just posted in followup to Wouter van Wageningen. Fredrik (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) I dunno about the Euro ones, but the US and NZ CD Car/Tow Truck have plastic wheels. You can see the moulding marks on the one I'm looking at. Moz (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| No, the 8417 has plastic wheels, and they aren't that chrome either - they are a slightly shiny grey/silver. At least the 2 I have at work are that way. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | | Please do not (...) (26 years ago, 29-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I can't see anything from the picture to indicate one or the other. So we'll have to take the description for what it is. (...) It does say: "New hydraulic system". But judging from the pictures, I guess you're right. (...) Sorry, that should (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) My 8417 wheels are plastic with a shiny coating. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Wait... hold it up to the light.. a little to the left. Nope. Maybe YOU can, but I can't... my antipodal binoculars seem to be malfunctioning again. Can you fly to the US and show me? (note to the humor impaired, I am playfully picking on a (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote (...) Sure. Let me just check... that would be $NZ2764 return, leaving tomorrow and arriving back Sunday night. Got a spare dollar for a poor kiwi? (...) That would be the infamous "US English", then. Uz bro's use "you" where (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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| **I** could be mistaken too! They do seem to be cheap, die-cast metal, though. Lots of chrome-plated pieces show evidence of the plastic underneath, but I couldn't find evidence of that on these, and am really making an assumption.... Fredrik (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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