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Re: what's this piece???
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Date: 
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 03:55:55 GMT
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Nicole Dente writes:

***my question is this:  there is one piece i don't get at all (am i
showing my age or lego ignorance???)  it is made out of flimsier
flexible plastic, and it looks like two 2x2 tiles (that won't accept
studs on the bottom!) attached by a thin pole-type strip.  sort of like
this, if you'll pardon the ascii art:

[]--[]

can someone tell me what this piece is supposed to do, and if it
appeared in other sets?

thanks,
nikky

This was used as a trailer hitch conection during the Samsonite era.  You
connect one end to the "car" and one end to the "trailer" element.  I think it
was also used on the early legoland train models that rolled on the blue track
with red 2X2 wheels, sans grey rubber tires.

Barry



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  Re: what's this piece???
 
(...) Yup. I had 4 of these at one point as you got one with each box of wheels/axle bricks you bought. I only have one now. I distinctly remember one was destroyed by my chewing on it when I was about 8. Sigh. I also remember trying very hard to (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)

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  what's this piece???
 
as formerly mentioned, i recently got set #375 (1960s Samsonite brick set) at a yard sale for $1. not too special -- it's just a "universal" style set -- but it has a lot of clear bricks and old-style windows and doors and wheels and whatnot, which (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)

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