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Re: 9V Electric Wires / Train Power
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:27:23 GMT
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> The bulk bricks section of Lego Shop At Home still has individual 9cm 9v
> leads for the rather steep price of £3.99 each (item no. 5041). I'm sure
> they used to do some 28cm leads as well, but they seem to have gone now.
That is somewhat of a pain, for a while now I have been creating leads to
"custom" lengths by cutting up the longer one you mention and reattaching
connectors from shorter leads to the new segments. This seems to be
remarkably easy once you know how, and and presumably it is possible to do
so with non-Lego two core ribbon cable. £3.99 is a terrible price to pay
though isn't it?
Jennifer
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 | | Re: 9V Electric Wires / Train Power
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| (...) What I've done for a couple of point motors is cut a short cable in half, then attached a Maplin 'battery connector' to each end. These are fairly tiny flat rectangular plugs with a pin and a socket side-by-side. They're discrete, and hold (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 9V Electric Wires / Train Power
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| (...) Running out of 9v wires is a common problem! The bulk bricks section of Lego Shop At Home still has individual 9cm 9v leads for the rather steep price of £3.99 each (item no. 5041). I'm sure they used to do some 28cm leads as well, but they (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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