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Re: 1x1 round plates in station
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:25:14 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:12:54 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
> wrote:
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> > It is my belief that this formerly was common practice as the 1x1 round
> > plate was just about the smallest part TLG made other than flowers which
> > also came that way. I have seen this done in several older sets that I
> > was lucky enough to get new. I can't say which ones for sure, though. I
> > seem to recall it as more common on the transparent than non transparent
> > parts.
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> Hmm... Remembering back to the olden days - pre 1990 :), I seem to
> remember that when the headlights on small cars (which were most of my
> lego) switched from 1*1 trans plates to round 1*1's, this happened. I
> _think_ but I'm not sure, that before that, there just was no such
> piece as 1*1 round, or possibly it wasn't believed sturdy enough for
> headlight use.
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> Jasper
Actually the latter is probably true. There were 1x1 rounds available since
the advent of modern LEGO (1958), and they were always available in (regular)
clear color. The earliest 1x1 rounds (with no recessed base like today's 1x1
rounds) had what was probably the poorest binding power of any (modern) LEGO
brick. If you built a column from them, it was not at all sturdy. They were
changed circa 1970, to the current appearance (except back then they didn't
have a hole in the top of the piece). These pieces, also available in clear,
held together much better. But they still didn't look much like a car
headlight, hence the use of the round plates.
Also, you mention pre-1990 as the olden days ..... gaw'd do I feel old. I
look at the olden days as anything before 1970!
Gary Istok
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: 1x1 round plates in station
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| (...) Well... There was a smiley there :) I'm talking about the Lego of my youth, which is basically the 1980's. During the (early part of) the 90's, I was busy having my Dark Ages :( Jasper (25 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: 1x1 round plates in station
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| (...) 1x1 Round Plates first appeared in 1980, quite a bit before 1990. 1990 is about the time that they started to be separated from sprues, though. Originally, they all came on sprues. The first use of them was as headlights for Trains. They were (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: 1x1 round plates in station
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| (...) I was just using some of these last night (due to running out of newer ones) and they are weird: they stick _onto_ another brick _better_ than th enew ones, but the top stud on them must be slightly undersize beacuse anything placed on top of (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 1x1 round plates in station
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| (...) Hmm... Remembering back to the olden days - pre 1990 :), I seem to remember that when the headlights on small cars (which were most of my lego) switched from 1*1 trans plates to round 1*1's, this happened. I _think_ but I'm not sure, that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.build)
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