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Re: When Did Tiles Get Their Groove?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:28:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> [FUT lugnet.cad.dev]
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> Do any of you oldtimers remember exactly when the bases of the various
> tile parts changed, to have the groove/indent around the edge? Were all
> the tiles changed at once, or did it take a while for everything to get
> into the groove?
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> Awhile ago, Kevin Bane went to the trouble of making new LDraw files for
> the grooved tiles (current LDraw tiles are grooveless). It would be
> nice (very nice!) to be able to sort the different patterned tile parts
> out, and put some groove into the newer tiles.
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> If anyone has specific examples of patterned tiles in either grooved or
> grooveless style, it would be good to know about that as well.
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> I'll post a list of the tiled parts in a bit.
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> Any information or insight on this topic would be ... groovy.
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> Steve
> (sorry about the groovy puns)
The only decorated tile without a finger groove that I know of is the 2x2 with
a large black disk (3068P17). This came from the Homemaker set 263 dated 1974.
I've no idea whether this _also_ exists with a finger groove.
Chris
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