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Re: How about ideas for new elements?
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
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Thu, 19 Apr 2001 01:26:58 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Simon Bennett writes:
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> It is from before the existence of Technical Lego and was never used in
> Technical, the grey u/j arrived at the same time as the 850 and the rest of
> the first Technical sets. (by the way was Technic called Technical before it
> was called Technic anywhere other than Britain?)
I think it was "Expert Builder" in the US, but I wasn't even around then so
I'm not sure... :-)
> Do you know about the old cogs which among other things were used to make
> the treads for the dozer in set 780 from 1975? I have this set (well most
> of it) and others. These gears (741, 742 and 743 in Partsref) were brought
> out along with white axles, red bushes and red u/js and big black chain
> links for treads. The u/j and the bush have not been rendered in LDraw so I
> can't show you them but I will eventually take a picture of one of mine and
> put it on Brickshelf. I think at least one of mine may have come from one
> of the early '70s gear sets like 800, 801, 802 or the like but the set
> database is not helping me as I can vaguely remember the box and it isn't there.
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> Is this some help? If anyone else can remember which sets they were in or
> has a picture, please help.
>
> Psi
Ah okay...I had seen those gears and axle before and was wondering where
they came from. So were these part of a pre-Expert Builder system that
existed before 1978?
-Gaurav Thakur, raving madman
Can be reached at cp5670@supermail.com
http://cp5670.50megs.com/TC/
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| (...) It is from before the existence of Technical Lego and was never used in Technical, the grey u/j arrived at the same time as the 850 and the rest of the first Technical sets. (by the way was Technic called Technical before it was called (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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