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Re: New Plates for old
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:09:58 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, David Till writes:
> Steven Lane wrote in message ...
> > I can't think of many more ways to motivate you lot, only that next time I
> > post I'll be bringing out the big guns, the classic space Mini-figs. :-)
My first post yeilded 5 plates, my second post Millions :-)
> Just had a look, and found I have some 500 older black 1x4 plates.
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> Amongst them I have found some with smooth undersides, some 6 lugs, and some
> 12 lugs.
> Some of the 12 lug variety have solid tubes, some hollow tubes!
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> Of the 4 varieties I have identified, the technic track links;
> Slip off those with smooth undersides.
> Snap onto those with 6 wide lugs.
> Pop off both types with 12 lugs.
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> So I guess you only want the 6 lug variety?
Thanks to a conversation with chris Dee yet another type has been
identified. A 12 lug brick can have both rounded off tubes, or non rounded
tubes. Rounded ones work non-rounded don't. This may bring the total I've
found so far to five. I haven't seen a six lug yet.
For the un-initiated, by tubes Dave means the 3 studs on the underside of a
plate, I've never heard them be called tubes before, but they do form tubes
in this instance :-).
> p.s. A sample of 50 plates yielded (12) smooth, (6) 6 lug, and (32) 12 lug,
> so you might have even more trouble than you thought getting 130 of them.
I'll probably end up, buried up to my elbows in plates come Gosport.
One more thing this thread is verging on complete anorak territory but don't
blame me it's Lego's fault for making their supposed universal building
system non-universal. :-)
Steve Lane
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| Steven Lane wrote in message ... (...) Just had a look, and found I have some 500 older black 1x4 plates. Amongst them I have found some with smooth undersides, some 6 lugs, and some 12 lugs. Some of the 12 lug variety have solid tubes, some hollow (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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