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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> Hey folks,
>
> Here's a story for Matthias Jetleb, since he's the rtlToronto Cool Old Part
> Guy :)
>
> Anyone ever have (maybe probably only Dave because he had Classic Space too)
> the 6970 Beta1 Command Base? (BTW, Canadian Lego never had these flashy
> American names. They had names like "Comand Centre" and other relatively
> descriptive names, ie not like "FX Star Spectral Investigator" but like
> "Four Wheeled Digger" :)
>
> Anyways, inside is a 6x1x5t blue window frame that has a large 2x2" yellow
> pane of glass. It's on the other side of the back wall as a 6x1x5t
> viewscreen. See it in Step 11 here:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/6000/6970/6970-05.html
>
> The weird thing was, this piece had little clips on the ends just like the
> 4x3tx1 windows, and these little slot grooves all around. I always wondered
> what they were for as a kid. When I took a mechanical design course in
> second year, I surmised those grooves were for mould pin location (Yes Rob
> and Iain, you can laugh at me now. Hey, I'm just in systems...)
>
> Anyways, I finally found what they were for a few months ago at a barbecue.
> A friend's sister (who's like 22) still had this old late seventies
> Homemaker set in her room. It's one of those giant sets for bendyarm
> figures that unfolds out. And it has one of those large windows. And
> here's what the clips and grooves are for:
>
> http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/nglcl/window.jpg
>
> They're to hold huge shutters! And to slot the little flower basket into!
> Isn't that adorable!
>
> I can't believe it took 20 years to figure out this mystery. I always saw
> those Homemaker sets in the catalog but never bothered to look closer.
>
> Calum
> PS-notice the large amount of brown in this set. Wow.
> PPS-I couldn't stop waxing about this window at the barbecue. My friends
> tend to realize I'll go on about anything (including the Motorola 56001 DSP
> architecture in the NeXTstation, which was the LAST barbecue find) but I
> literally was so impressed with these windows.
Wow.... those are large windows, with large shutters, and cute flower boxes...
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