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Re: Weird piece 4737
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lugnet.build
Date: 
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:56:34 GMT
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Tom McDonald wrote:

Classic space set Solar Power Transport has them in grey. I still have all
four of mine. These are funky corner pieces, and I can totally see why they've
not been reissued. I wish that the "pockets", the concave areas, were inside.
It's hard to explain, but the piece looks inside out to me and I'd rather have
it the other way around.

Agreed.

They're like 2468 corner convex pieces which, imo, are
a superior design.

Profile wise, the pieces are not compatible. Bad ascii art warning:

2468 looks like
\
\
  \
   |
   |
   |
  /
/
/


while 4737 looks more like

\
\
  \
   \
    |
   /
  /
/
/

Much less vertical surface.


Maybe the guy has his part # wrong and it is 2468, which
has been available in transparent colors, as you might know.

-Tom McD.

But didn't Kev get the part number from off the piece?

++Lar



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(...) He did. And following on from the replies, it does match the profile of some of the trans yellow Blacktron space pieces we have so I can see now how it could be a corner piece for them. What was confusing me was what one of the other posters (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: Weird piece 4737
 
Classic space set Solar Power Transport has them in grey. I still have all four of mine. These are funky corner pieces, and I can totally see why they've not been reissued. I wish that the "pockets", the concave areas, were inside. It's hard to (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.build)

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