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Re: Peeron inventories
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Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:51:35 GMT
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In lugnet.inv, John Patterson wrote:
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> Your comment about the buffers is correct. However I had a mint in sealed box
> and it did not have the buffers in it. I opened it about a year ago and never
> put it together. I am finding that sets do not match instructions exactly all
> the time, mostly in small parts like that, that makes little difference to the
> overall playability of the set. Most of my sets from 1974 on were bought by me
> and many only recently opened. This one I got from Masgarn du Nord in Denmark.
> I have found that the buffers have been left out of other train sets so it might
> have even been a printing mistake. Who knows, I just do these from my sets and
> the directions. Had this not been in a sealed condition I would not have
> mentioned the correction.
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This sounds very surprising! I have one 7720 with those buffers, but don't know
whether they're original since I bought the set second-hand.
I have also one 7722 with 4 black single buffers. I got it MISB for Christmas
1991, it was my first LEGO train. I remember my surprise that on a 4-vehicle
train 3 types of buffers were found.
When the buffer beam and buffered 6x16-train-base-with-motor-cutout were
introduced, the single buffers were needed only for the battery box cars. Maybe
TLC ran short of them so some batches of sets (including yours) came out without
single buffers.
For the Peeron inventory: In my opinion, the buffers should be kept there, only
with a note added. I find these parts very useful so I want to see them in
Peeron-checked auctions :-)
As for the 1980s' trains, there is another thing which would be nice to correct:
the track sleeper plates. The two versions look very similar but they have
different numbers (767 is probably an LDraw number for parts with unknown mold
number, but 4166 is a known mold number). I would renumber them 4166a and 4166b
and add notes to the sets (especially the 785x track sets).
Martin Srb
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| (...) Thanks for the note, I have found other rather strange things in the early 80 sets. There is a round brick 1x1 open stud transgreen, that had a white coating on the inside. I have seen this in three sets. Also the minifig airtanks in red and (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| (...) Your English is fine, probably better than mine. Your comment about the buffers is correct. However I had a mint in sealed box and it did not have the buffers in it. I opened it about a year ago and never put it together. I am finding that (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.people.newbie)
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