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Re: New plastic "rubber" tire substitutions
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:25:26 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "John Heins" <Johnmhiii@aol.com> writes:
> 
> >  Having just picked up an 8241 "Battle Cars" kit for parts (wheels
> >  and gears), I was astounded to find plastic wheels in place of the
> >  usual plastic hub/rubber tire combination in the 30.4x14 size.
> >  Except for the hollow back, they look just like the usual
> >  combination.
> 
> So what looks like black 30.4x14 hubs with rubber tires on the picture
> is really a one piece molded plastic part with a hollow backside?
> This is really bad in my opinion.  And to think that I was looking
> forward to the black hubs in this set.  :-(


Yes, these are hollow 1 piece ABS wheels (32146). They first appeared last year
in the 3057 Create 'n' Race set. I suspect the reason that they are
in the 8241 set is cost. After all it would be hared to expect 8 real tires
in a set that only costs USD 7.99

see:

http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/registry/wheel/wheel_3.html

--Jim



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(...) ... (...) Thanks for the heads up; I was actually going to purchase this set specifically for the black wheels (without the tires); since they aren't seperated from the tires they're of little use to me. D'oh. I may still need black wheels (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.technic)

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  Re: New plastic "rubber" tire substitutions
 
(...) So what looks like black 30.4x14 hubs with rubber tires on the picture is really a one piece molded plastic part with a hollow backside? This is really bad in my opinion. And to think that I was looking forward to the black hubs in this set. (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.technic)

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