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Re: source for 1 x 12 technic beams in red?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:19:01 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote:
> > > > > Can anyone suggest a source for 1 x 12 technic beams in red?
> > > > > Briclink has them but if there is another way to get them that would be
> > > > > preferable.
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> Just for the record, define "preferable" -- what does it mean?
For Mr.Wilson I think it means 75% cheaper than all other possible options.
(snippage)
> Just to tie this to another theme (lack of loc.au postings), I think it is
> the success of S@H and bricklink and ebay that reduces posts to loc.au. Once
> upon a time, getting hold of certain parts or sets was a challenge and you
> needed to pick the brains of others to achieve it, but now everything is
> available (albeit with a shipping cost) -- hence there is less to discuss.
Not too sure if the SAH/BL/eb success can take sole credit. Most people were
probably sourcing items from within their own LUG anyway. Next January it will
be 5 years since the Sydney group first met and we seem pretty much at the same
level as then. Though we hit some peaks in the first 2 years, with people moving
overseas we lost some impetus.
The BUGs and MUGs seem to chug along happily and have even had train displays,
something the Sydney group talked about a couple of times. The Adelugs seem to
have gone to ground. The comet Santosh graces our skies occasionally.
Has the initial enthusiasm waned or have ALFs just gone back to their solitary
ways, some are impossible to get to a gathering, even Dubya would have a hard
time smokin' them out of their holes. It's a wonder that even some of us get to
reproduce ;^)
pete.w (droning on, but not about color)
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 | | Re: source for 1 x 12 technic beams in red?
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| (...) displays, (...) seem to (...) You could almost say that MUGS has tripled in numbers since it started. There were around 5 -6 of us at the start and now there's around 15 - 20. Numbers at meetings vary, though, and probably average around 7 (...) (20 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
| | | Re: source for 1 x 12 technic beams in red?
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| Basicly, I only need a small number of these beams in red. The local parts sellers I usually go to do not have any 1 x 12 beams in red in stock. If I can obtain them by buying a set that is on the shelf (or by buying something second hand locally (...) (20 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: source for 1 x 12 technic beams in red?
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| (...) be (...) Just for the record, define "preferable" -- what does it mean? I'm genuinely curious because, for quantities of a specific part, there are effectively only two options. First, you pray that S@H happens to have them in a bulk pack (...) (20 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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