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Hi, folks,
Forgive the rather broad initial newsgroup distribution -- there's a method to
my madness. Followups are set into a single newsgroup that many people may
filter -- namely, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands.
I have heard tell of a very useful part in the other groups to which I've
posted. This part is a plate that has studs on both sides. Alternately, there
has been mention of a plate that can accept studs on both sides.
A clone brand apparently offered parts of this kind at one time. Which brand/
brands? Are they still available? Did these parts "play well" with Lego parts?
A piece that was not both reasonably compact and a standard Lego thickness would
not be very useful to me. Plates with studs on both faces can and should be one
standard plate thick. To me, this appears to be the more useful of the two
types of parts.
It was pointed out by another poster that a plate that can accept studs on both
sides would probably be too fragile, if it were only as thick as a standard
plate. I think that two plates thick would be acceptable, but not as thick as a
brick (ouch).
Does anyone have any of these gender-changing plates? Can you describe them or,
better yet, post pictures of them?
Many people would like to see TLC make such parts. Will they? (O.K., this is
obviously a rhetorical question, but since I'm posting in lugnet.dear-lego, I
thought that I would add my plea to the small chorus of requests.)
--
John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305
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| (...) funny you should ask... i just got a handful of these very tyco pieces in my wednesday fotw! both douple-genders, even: in blue, a lt gray, and dark olive (military) green. this fotw one of those deals where you get a forestmen's river (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
| | | Re: The mythical gender-changing plates
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| I have some old tyco sets floating around, and I remember a gender changing plate with studs on both sides, but the plate itself was about 1/3 the thickness of a normal lego plate. I've never used it in any of my lego models because I like to use (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
| | | Re: The mythical gender-changing plates
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| (...) When Brad Justus first posted to Lugnet and RTL, this TYCO element as a Lego knockoff was on my short list of initial requests. The female counterpart element is just as useful though. But, as has been pointed out by many responding to this (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
| | | Re: The mythical gender-changing plates
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| John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote in message ... (...) there (...) brand/ (...) parts? (...) would (...) be one (...) I have no exhaustive reply, but I can say what I know. Tyco distributed converters like this with some sets in the mid-to-late-80s. I do (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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