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Re: Strange plate bottom variant
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 25 Jul 2003 05:57:18 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Niels Karsdorp wrote:
> 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
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> Does anyone know about this variant?
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 underside could cause the plastic
to warp (due to non-uniform thickness, and non-uniform cooling--see the pits on
Racers track ends, it's predictable.)
Is this part from the 12V era? That could begin to explain why the middle two
studs are different (they hold the rail).
Can you find the injection mark? Is there one injection mark on one end as
usual?
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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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| 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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