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Re: Peeron inventories
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Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:53:20 GMT
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In lugnet.inv, Martin Srb wrote:
> In lugnet.inv, John Patterson wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.
> <snip>
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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 :-)
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> 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).
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> Martin Srb
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 yellow are a different shade and maybe a different plastic. I have also
found this in the 1x1 plates with vertical clip.
As for the trains, I have come accross a noise surpressor center rail. It has a
little box on it and only marked with a little star on the back.
I think that much of the problems with inventories is Lego using whatever parts
were available at the time. And it appears that they kept no records. I found
a very strange thing in one set. Someone at Lego had a sense of humor. Inside
the sealed box and sealed bag was a Mega Block. Unhappy employee?
Take care
John P
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| In lugnet.inv, John Patterson wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> 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 (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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