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Re: 99-03 Voting: Quick Comments
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Wed, 12 May 1999 16:05:47 GMT
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On Wed, 12 May 1999 04:21:10 GMT, Joshua Delahunty
<dulcaoin@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Steve Bliss wrote:
> > 3705C01.DAT (Technic Axle 4 Threaded):
> > - Why the C01 suffix? This doesn't appear to be a compound part...
> > 3737C01.DAT (Technic Axle 10 Threaded):
> > - Ditto
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> This was a numbers group suggestion. These only come in 7xxxx codes
> (and hence, only in black), but Terry really wanted to release them
> color-16. Rather than use 3-digit codes for this, we based them off the
> codes for the non-threaded version of each axle, so they'd group
> nicely. Plus, from a certain point of view, these ARE regular items
> that have been modified, and so fit in the new C grouping (since we only
> have P and C); much as a chromed item is a normal element that's had
> something special done to it.
Rilly? Those axles were machined after they were molded, to add the
threads? Cool.
Steve
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| (...) I wish I knew for a _fact_ that this is (was) the case, but I can't say so with any certainty. I would suppose that using an existing mold to create an axle, and then cutting threads into the element, makes a lot more sense than trying to (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) This was a numbers group suggestion. These only come in 7xxxx codes (and hence, only in black), but Terry really wanted to release them color-16. Rather than use 3-digit codes for this, we based them off the codes for the non-threaded version (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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