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Re: 1x1 round plates in station
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Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:27:32 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:
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> Jasper Janssen wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> > Jasper
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> Gary Istok
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 round as
the stud fit into a recess in a support brick that held the light prisms
that separated one light source into two headlight outputs (this was for
the 12v Trains). Standard plates could have been used (I suppose), but
they wouldn't have looked very good. The next year, 1981, they were
introduced into Town System and Space System sets.
-- joshua
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| (...) Actually (according to the catalogs - I've not seen it in person, and always wondered how well it worked), the prism had a taller stud that would go through the hole in the support brick and stick out like a regular stud, onto which the round (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.build)
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