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Re: Technic 99
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Date: 
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 03:04:14 GMT
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:21:36 GMT, Fredrik Glöckner
<fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote:

> wvw@earthlink.net (De Bengel) writes:
> Front wheel drive?  Is that steering wheel drive?  This puzzles me.

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.

> 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 speculating here.

It does say: "New hydraulic system". But judging from the pictures, I
guess you're right.

> >  8444 LEGO TECHNIC Helicopter With a front element
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> A front element?  What's that supposed to mean?  *boggle*

Sorry, that should have been 'with a new (cool? masculine? Sorry,
don't know the English term) front element'

> I would suppose they are simply crome coated.  My 1998 Norwegian
> catalogue says that the 8417, 8428 and 8462 has aluminium hubs, but we
> all know thay are crome coated plastic.

That is what I figured. But this isn't mentioned with the race-car.
Did you see the two bended rods in the front, over the cockpit. They
seem to be some sort of a flexible axle.

> Thanks for the translation!

You're welcome.

____
|oooo| Cheers,
|oooo| Wouter van Wageningen
¯¯¯¯



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