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Re: what is the rarest piece
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 19 May 1999 14:54:27 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:
> Eric Brok wrote:
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> > Mike Poindexter wrote in message ...
> > > I have one that I would have to guess is very rare. I still can't fathom • why
> > > they made it:
> > >
> > > 2 clear 2x2 base plates joined with a plastic tether about 4 studs long.
> > > These are not plates, but base plates.
> > >
> > > Anyone know where they came from? I got them in a 40+ lb. lot I bought a
> > > while back.
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> > They are single-piece, flexible 'hinges' from the '70s (estimation), to
> > couple vehicles.
> >
> > Eric Brok
> > --------
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> If what you are describing is what I think it is, it was made starting as
> early as 1961 for the early LEGO wheels (red 2x2 or 4x4 wheels with grey
> rubber and white 2x4 wheel housings). And the piece is not really clear, but
> a combination of clear and white, a sort of milky translusent white. These
> pieces had a thin "thread" that connected the two 2x2 "plates without an
> underneath connector". I have a few of these. I remember as a child we used
> them to connect train cars to each other. Not sure when they stopped making
> these (maybe when red wheels with grey rubber and white housings were replaced
> with red wheels with black rubber and black housings in the early 70's?).
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> Gary Istok
Here is a picture of the piece (from a 1963 Samsonite US parts pack list). It is
from the Bill Katz/Joe Lauher website, and the the piece is pictured in the bottom
right corner as part of the wheels parts pack (the piece on the far right):
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/60s_e3.jpg
Gary Istok
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| (...) early as 1961 for the early LEGO wheels (red 2x2 or 4x4 wheels with grey rubber and white 2x4 wheel housings). And the piece is not really clear, but a combination of clear and white, a sort of milky translusent white. These pieces had a thin (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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