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Re: 99-03 Voting: Quick Comments
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Thu, 13 May 1999 06:12:18 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> On Wed, 12 May 1999 04:21:10 GMT, Joshua Delahunty
> <dulcaoin@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Rilly? Those axles were machined after they were molded, to add the
> threads? Cool.
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
create an exact mold with threads included...
(Then again, a mold had to be created for the nut element as well,
so...)
I WOULD think that if a mold were created just to create these two
threaded axles, that it would be based off the standard cross axle mold
already-existing.
Hence, I wrote "from a certain point of view". There's that reason, and
that I wanted to set off Todd's Star Wars Quotation RADAR. He's been
strangely silent, though. :-P
-- joshua
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| (...) That is the same question I had about the construction. :-) And I liked Joshua's logic about the number. It groups them numerically very nicely, and saves using 3-digit #'s, so why not? (...) I would think so - without actually seeing the (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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