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Re: Studs
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Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:56:57 GMT
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Laurentino wrote:

> I don't know if the contacts of the studs where yellow in some time in
> the past, but nowadays they are silver. Maybe they could should be
> changed to color 383?

And Moolhuysen answered:

> This is a case of old agreement within our group. At December 10th 1997
> Remco Braak wrote:
> 
> > I believe that all electric contacts are yellow in the "official" LEGO
> > instructions. I will check this for the pole reverser parts.
> 
> It turned out this was the case for all electric contact studs. We decided
> to remain compatible and make the contact surfaces on the studs yellow.

Yes.

Later we decided to use colour 494 (yellow-yellow mix) for
electric contacts. This makes them yellow in instructions
and allows L2P and L3P to colour them chrome in POV-Ray.

Play well,

Jacob

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(...) Guess what, L3P does not render them chrome, but yellow (not even gold!). Laurentino Martins [mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt] [(URL) (28 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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-----Original message----- From: Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt> To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Date: vrijdag 26 maart 1999 21:33 Subject: Studs (...) It turned out this was the case for all electric contact (...) (28 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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