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Subject: 
Re: Elemental Challenge
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Date: 
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:39:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Andy Lynch writes:
> In lugnet.general, Wayne R. Hussey writes:
> > If anyone out there thinks they have an element I don't, let me know and we
> > can compare notes.
> 
> I have an old white 4x4 turntable that is made up of three pieces.  The top,
> the bottom and a little rounded piece that sticks through the bottom piece
> into the top and holds them together.  The rounded piece doesn't actually
> work with any other Lego piece that I can remember.  It must be from
> sometime in the 70's.
> 
> The one in my pre dark age collection is pretty beat up these days, but
> there, that's my offering to the challenge. :-)
> 
> -Andy Lynch

Thanks, Andy.

This sounds like the standard turntables from the 60's and early 70's. Once
they introduced Technic (called Expert Builder at the time), they
re-designed it to enable a cross axle to pass through the center - nominally
for the ability to control the position of the turning part.

Wayne



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(...) I have an old white 4x4 turntable that is made up of three pieces. The top, the bottom and a little rounded piece that sticks through the bottom piece into the top and holds them together. The rounded piece doesn't actually work with any other (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

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