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Re: RIS 1.5
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:42:47 GMT
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Original-From:
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dave madden <dhm@mersenne&Spamcake&.com>
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=>From: "Chris Phillips" <chris.phillips@computerboards.com>
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=>Maybe they are referring to the new (?) connectors that come in the Robotics
=>Discovery Set. The RDS comes with a kind of 3-stud friction pin that I've
=>never seen before. It's like the normal black Technic 3-stud friction pin
=>except that one stud width is actually a collar that can accept the
=>end of an
=>axle.
No, they've had those for a while. (At least as far back as the Giant
Model set -- 8277, which I just got for my birthday!) The technica
registry (http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/t_contents.html) calls
them "friction snap with cross hole," and if I'm reading it right, it
appeared in 1996 or 1997.
d.
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: RIS 1.5
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| (...) You are correct. The picture on the Technica site looks like the part I'm describing (as far as I can tell from that angle) and the description matches as well. There must be some new exciting connector piece that they've got up their sleeve. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 1.5
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| (...) Maybe they are referring to the new (?) connectors that come in the Robotics Discovery Set. The RDS comes with a kind of 3-stud friction pin that I've never seen before. It's like the normal black Technic 3-stud friction pin except that one (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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