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Question on Samsonite gears sets
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:07:10 GMT
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Hi. I found a nice lot of 60's and 70's stuff yesterday at the local
Salvation Army, which included some large gears: 2 blue (8-stud
diameter), 4 yellow (4-stud), and 4 white (2-stud). There are no axles
included in the lot. All of the Samsonite gears sets listed on Pause came
with different gears, axles, etc., but they're all from the 70's and
Samsonite made the gears before then according to a site I've been
perusing. For a picture of an older gears set, see:
http://www.planet-interkom.de/lfreak/samsonit.htm
The site is in German; the text above the gear picture basically says
Samsonite started producing Lego gears in the US in 1966. Can anybody
point me to a catalog containing this set, or instructions for it?
Question #2: since the gears don't have any axles with them, and in any
case Technic axles wouldn't work in them, may I assume they worked by
attaching them to the old wheels? That's the impression the picture
linked to above gives.
Alan
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Question on Samsonite gears sets
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| (...) This one I can answer - yes. The old style wheels had studs on them, and that's how you used them. That plus 4x4 round turntables. LEGO still makes turntables, but the old ones were completely round, whereas the new ones now have a square (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Question on Samsonite gears sets
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| Allen: (...) The first set with gears was the Samsonite 001 Gears Set from 1966 (although several internet references say 1971). Samsonite produced sets with these gears until 1972 (Lego took over in 73 with a completely new retail assortment.) For (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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