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    Re: Technic 99 —Richard Dee
   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)
   
        Re: Technic 99 —Fredrik Glöckner
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Technic 99 —Chris Moseley
       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)
     
          Re: Technic 99 —Larry Pieniazek
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: Technic 99 —Chris Moseley
       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)
    
         Re: Technic 99 —Tom Stangl
      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)
    
         Re: Technic 99 —Richard Dee
     **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)
   
        Re: Technic 99 —Wouter van Wageningen
   (...) 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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