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Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:49:50 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> 
> > http://www.kl.net/scans/7000/7722/7722-13.jpg
> 
> What's even better: you can also put them together, and have a large
> hole with two doors.

Pretty neat.  They don't even need two distinct parts: the left door
is just the right door upside down (or vice versa).

> Yeah. By the way, the 1*2 plates with H -beam attached lego uses to
> support the new 9V technic motor, have exactly the same profile as the
> rails those doors slide on. So that may mean they're gonna come back,
> someday.

You have to wonder why they ever went away.  Lego trains all seem to be
based on European prototypes - do Euro-trains still run boxcars, or
is it all containers these days?

--
Steve Jacquot
sj5w@virginia.edu



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  Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
 
(...) Exactly. The sercondary model has them horizontal, for a very flat car with doors on top :) (...) Most are containers, but occasional;ly I do see one or two boxcar types. (note, I'm not a train fanatic, especially RL ones, so that's just my (...) (28 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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  Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
 
(...) Hard to tell in that image, but (URL) it clear, yes, that's exactly what I need. New thread: lost pieces that were once in production, but are no more. -- Steve Jacquot sj5w@virginia.edu (28 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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