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| | | It occurred to me while sifting through my lego that the ubiquitous blue connector peg with bush must be the most useless basic piece of lego. I have dozens lying about, leftover from the old robochopper set. 32054 Technic Pin Long with Stop Bush, (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) They are good in modular designs. I quite like these parts - I think they come in red, blue, black and perhaps white? But you are correct, there are too many of them. Other useful, but too common parts must be the 14t & 24t bevel/crown gears - (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Steve Lane
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| | | | | I use 24t gears as wheels on tank chassis so I can't get enough of them(any donations greatfully received). Your right about the 14's though. Yours Lego Mad Steve (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Huw Millington
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| | | | Scott A <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> wrote in message news:G7yywG.Et6@lugnet.com... (...) Yes, and cyan. I like them a lot for the reason you state -- they are good for modular designs, where joining subassemblies requires friction pins, but putting one (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Steve Lane
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| | | | | (...) Without destroying what? the pin or the sub-assembly? and doesn't that just vindicate my assertion that these parts are indeed useless. Lego Mad Steve (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | | | (...) No, he means when you can't get in to the gap to fit a friction pin. So, you push one of these half-into the sub-assembly, then when you bring two sub-assemblies together you can just push them right through to hold it all together. This is (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Steve Lane
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| | | | | | | (...) He should have used the word dismantling then, rather than destroying. That would have made it clearer. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | | (...) If one assembles, one dismantles. If one creates, one can destroy. 'To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day' - Churchill Scott A (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | | | | | (...) Oh good grief. Is this the sort of drivel that's going to be left if we take the trading out to another group? Right. Roll up! Roll up! Step right up! Get your lovely LEGO 'ere. How much would you expect to pay madam... Jason. (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Huw Millington
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| | | | | | "Jason J. Railton" <j.j.railton@cwcom.net> wrote in message news:G7zE4u.J0I@lugnet.com... (...) one (...) just (...) all (...) Thank you Jason, that is much better than my hurried at-lunchtime reply, and exactly what I meant. Huw (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: Most useless plentiful part? —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | (...) As well as yellow - there is one of them in use at the join of the yellow part of the cabin frame to the body of my excavator: (URL) also used loads of the black ones, although I cannot remember exactly where - if I remember correctly the big (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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