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  Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
A while back, there were some posts about a couple sources of the clear macaroni brick. My husband recently got his childhood LEGO (and his older siblings childhood LEGO as well) it's most likely all european (Israel) and ranges from about (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
(...) yay! :) (...) fwiw, I do remember having at least one boat hull... 3 piece (maybe 4?) red, I think, and had the weight brick that connects under the boat... :) Dan (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
(...) old and feeble, that's me. I forget stuff... 'sides, no one wants to hear of me playing with the lego boat in the tub :) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
ship (...) hey now! you didn't mention that! (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
If you do/did have the fireboat and it's just the hull gone missing you should have a bunch of turntables in black/grey/white. Especially the white ones aren't that common as far as I know...... Duq "Jennifer L. Boger" <jenn@peeron.com> wrote in (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
(...) Well, where else would you play with it... Frank (who did check out how well the pirate ship hulls floated in the tub...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
Jennifer L. Boger <jenn@peeron.com> wrote in message news:3AAE8E33.D9A82C...ron.com... (...) It could very well be #775 Fire Fighter. If you look at the pic on Lugnet: (URL) clear macaroni brick is used for the radar tower. Wish I still had mine. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
(...) What were the results of this experiment? -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
(...) They float ok for a while and then water starts seeping in through the cracks, and soon the just barely float (they almost never completely sink, even when I make every effort to make grungy used ones do so in a bubble bath). ABS seems to be (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
Jennifer, Clear macaroni bricks in the early 1960's were more plentiful than at any other time in LEGO history. They were produced in clear parts packs #224 (20 per pack in Europe, 33 per pack in North America (Samsonite)). And there were also (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Clear macaroni - Dear Gary
 
(...) it's not yellowed at all, we're still going through everything, right now it's soaking in water... I'm not sure what pieces i should keep an eye out for... we did find some flat trees and bushes though :) and some odd doors, and lots of old (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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