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Re: Would it be a good idea if LEGO made metal axles?
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Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:27:33 GMT
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Allan Kolenovsky wrote:
> Has LEGO ever considered releasing metal axles?
Well, they did. . .
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/x1208b
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/x1208a
I know nothing about pre-Technic gears, especially European pre-Technic
gears, so I don't know if these parts were used as cross axles or, as may
be the case, cross axle-to-"freely spinning axle" adapters.
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TWS Garrison
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| (...) I think those were just to allow the pre-Technic cog wheels to work on the old motors (4.5 and 12V) which could only turn the round (also metal) axles of the old red LEGO wheels. Later motors had a special bearing for cross axles and worked (...) (17 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi folks. I love to build semi-functional scale models of various vehicles out of LEGO. In my never ending effort to make my models look like the real things, I have had to constantly scale up my productions. I am beginning to hit a barrier now, (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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