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Re: 1x1 round plates in station
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Fri, 12 Mar 1999 05:13:04 GMT
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G. Benedikt Rochow wrote:
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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.
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> > 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.
>
> 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 plates were then put.
> ...I just realized (never did before) that without the round plate
> (for lack of clear round or 1x1 plates), this would still have
> made for a nice headlight set for a 6-wide car.
> (Rear-engined, though, as that support brick takes up a grille's
> space - though one could have put 1x1-recessed-side-stud pieces
> in front of the lights, again with 1x1 clears on them for headlights,
> and then put grille material in between.)
Ouch, yes. That's embarassing. Teaches me to speak from memory. You
are indeed correct (I'm going from brochure photos as well, but the 1981
German Trains brochure shows it very well).
The prism held the round plates, rather than the holes in the mount. The
rest of what I wrote is AFAIK, accurate, however.
-- joshua
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