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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 (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | 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)
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(...) I don't know where this plate came from. I got it in a big lot with blue and gray track. I can't remember if this lot also contained some waffle plates or I got those somewhere else. On one of the small sides (2 stud wide) there is a small pit (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.general)
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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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| | Re: Strange plate bottom variant
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler wrote: **snip** Oops! Disregard my babbling--I failed to read/understand your question. What a dolt! Dave! (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.general)
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