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As Huw says, the black piece of plastic, that prevents the spring from dropping into the clear cylinder, breaks up. This renders the damper completely useless. As soon as my original replacements arrived, I placed them in a compressed position, to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) The part inside the cylinder at the top that takes the pressure of the compressed spring is obviously not man enough for the job because it cracks and leaves bits of ABS inside the cylinder. Huw (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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I don't know if everyone knows this - but eToys and Freeserve are running a special promotion where you get £10 off an order of £20 or more. You have to enter eToys through the Freeserve site (www.freeserve.net) to get the special promotion number (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Hi, Jonathon? Are you saying the "replacment" cylinders also "broke" after use ? Huw? when you say "shattered internally" what are you seeing there? broken seals or fractured ABS parts ? After reading this, I am leaving my Indy Storm in the open or (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) In a toyshop round here, one of the sales staff confided that Lego had been selling really well this autumn. Although the sample size was probably too small to make a statistically useful piece of information ... (...) I've seen a couple of (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Busy-Bee Latest List 15 Nov 1999
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I've just updated the list, of interest: 3055 Kelloggs Adventurers Car £1.20 3056 Kelloggs Go-Kart £1.20 3303 Goals, refs, etc. £4.99 6402 Paradisa Ice Cream Bar £3.99 6417 Paradisa Show Jumping Event £2.50 6564 Rubbish Van £3.99 6625 Police Car (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I've not seen a Star Wars ad, but yesterday while flicking channels I caught ads on C5 for 8448 (around 2pm, during It's A Knockout - ahem) and Znap (later on, 3pm-ish I guess, during their soap opera omnibus repeat). I'm afraid I can't (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Lego are obviously trying really hard to ensure that they get as few sales as possible this year by having all the adverts on Channel 5. At about 17.45 today I saw an advert for Lego Star Wars sets followed by an advert for Channel 5 (at least (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Richard Franks writes: Just adding my 2p worth to Richard's review of the event... (...) pre-built (...) The one they built during the event was normal 1xX red bricks however... myself and Richard were amazed that it didn't (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Ooops! Yes! I started writing a mini-review of it on Saturday but I had to postpone it.. I think everyone will agree that it was a successful event. The task for the day was to re-create a version of Macintosh's Rose - the one they had (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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