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Strange plate bottom variant
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:45:52 GMT
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Browsing through my collection 2x8 white sleeper plates for my blue track,
I noticed a bottom-variant I haven't seen before. I know the old waffle-
bottom and the current tube-bottom variants, but this is a variant on the
tube-bottom plate: not all studs have a hole below them. But all studs
are present at the top and all have 'LEGO' on them.
This plate is the middle one on the picture:
http://home.hetnet.nl/~niels-karsdorp/ldraw/question/plates.jpg
Does anyone know about this variant?
Niels
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Strange plate bottom variant
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| (...) This is very interesting. Maybe the missing "dimples" were an error in die making, or were smoothed off a damaged die? If it has all 2x8 studs on top, I couldn't imagine a physical reason for the lack of dimples. Studs without dimples on the (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Strange plate bottom variant
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| (...) That's a Samsonite-era plate, from the early 70's, I believe. I scored a dozen or so from an Ebay lot. Did you happen to notice if the LEGO logo is slightly different from the modern incarnation? I seem to recall that the lettering was more (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.general)
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