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Re: lost childhood pieces
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:11:19 GMT
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Selçuk wrote:
> Christopher Tracey wrote in message <37E7D999.24F3BB74@usgs.gov>...
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> > One of the yellow 2x4 bricks I have has a tube design I have never noticed
> > before. The three tubes on the bottom have a slot cut in them in the long
> > dimension. They look analogous to a gray technic pin. Can anyone tell me
> > anything about this piece? The brick is pretty beat up but I can tell it • is
> > genuine lego. I guess the age of this is somewhere between 1977 to 1983.
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> You can narrow down your interval as 1977-1979. I have two sets from 1980
> and 1981 and neither has the pieces in the mentioned form. I know this piece
> (I have at least one of them), but I can't tell anything about its exact
> period. According to my collection, it's after 1968, but before 1980. Gary
> may know much better.
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> Selçuk
I'm going to plead ignorance on that one. I too have some of those pieces. But
I do have a lot of opened sets, and it's like a needle in a haystack trying to
find the original set where these pieces came from.
Gary Istok
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| Thanks for the info. Someday I will figure out what my first LEGO sets were. Does anyone know the purpose of the slot(ie. makes the bricks lock tighter)? Just curious? -Chris (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: lost childhood pieces
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| Christopher Tracey wrote in message <37E7D999.24F3BB74@usgs.gov>... (...) is (...) You can narrow down your interval as 1977-1979. I have two sets from 1980 and 1981 and neither has the pieces in the mentioned form. I know this piece (I have at (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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