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Re: Cannon info
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:49:18 GMT
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> > > My cannons do not fire but they are also made of multiple pieces like
> > > they were intended to fire but when LEGO decided against firing cannons in
> > > the U.S. they just removed a small componet.
> > > I actually had no idea that later pirate sets had a completely
> > > different
> > > non firing cannon.
> > > Anyway I'm just rambling but this was news to me.
I was wondering about this. I've only been into Lego for a few years and have
hardly any knowledge about the history of the cannons. I got an older cannon
at a garage sale with a black handle on the hand that can be pulled out about
1/4 inch. Is this the different non-firing cannon you're talking about?
Tim
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| (...) There is a whole evolution of cannon, Tim. The one you have is probably a transition model that was built to fire and then modified to not fire by replacing the springs with a solid pin. Yours can be modified with a small hobby spring (or a (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The first year of production (1989), all the cannos fired. I think the next year(1990), they replaced all firing cannons with the black-ended non-firing ones. I'm not sure when they replaced those non-firing cannons with the single piece ones, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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