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Re: what's this piece???
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 29 Oct 1998 05:28:34 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Barry McFarland writes:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> I also remember trying very hard to make a workable train out of 1x8 beams and
> the red wheels with the grey tires removed but I didn't have enough 1x8s to • get
> anywhere. This was circa 1969...
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> ++Lar
I still have a couple of these sorted in with the old metal axel wheels (my
kids opt for the newer wheels on nearly all of their creations)
Now that you mention it, I distinctly remember trying to make a train with
about 4-5 of these. The elasticity of the hitch element kept "springing" the
later coaches back into a straight line.
Yeah, and it would have been about '69 to '72
Barry
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| (...) 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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