Subject:
|
Re: RIS 1.5
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:08:23 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2222 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (dave madden) writes:
> From: "Chris Phillips" <chris.phillips@computerboards.com>
> ...
> 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.
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. (It's probably a tube of Krazy Glue!)
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: RIS 1.5
|
| =>From: "Chris Phillips" <chris.phillips@comp...oards.com> =>... =>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 (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
7 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
