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Re: Cannon info
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Date: 
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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  Re: Cannon info
 
(...) 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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  Re: Cannon info
 
(...) 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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