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Re: Flex Cables (was: Does anyone has the 8479 bar code truck?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:12:20 GMT
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Dave Baum <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote in message
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> The reason I speculated that it may have been a legal issue is that
> several years ago the flex pack was advertised as available from S@H. For
> some reason they pulled it from US distribution but kept it in Europe.
> The flex pack has several different style connectors in it - perhaps one
> of them is the problem, and TLG works around that in the bigger sets by
> not using that specific connector.
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> The other "mystery" is that the "type II" connectors were already in sets
> (8412, etc) when I ordered 5118 from the UK, but 5118 was still using the
> type I connectors. Strange.
The "type I" connectors were pulled from the market in the US. There was
in fact some legal issue -- something about a choking risk. I forgot where
I heard this from. It may have been from a S@H rep. I believe that they
also had to stop selling the 8856 Whirlwind Resuce (and other sets that
used the type I connectors) prematurely in the US because of this.
If 5118 is _still_ using type I connectors (which btw, are far superior to
the type II, IMHO), then that is why they are not sold here. If 5118 is
not using the type I connectors anymore, then I'd bet they just never
bothered to reintroduce it is the US.
> Of course this is all pure speculation. Perhaps 5118 didn't sell a high
> enough quantity in the US to remain a service pack and S@H replaced it
> with something else.
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 | | Re: Flex Cables (Does anyone have the 8485 CCII)
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| Thanks to Kevin the 8485 Control Center II scans are available and I can finally build the T-Rex. I assumed no-one would want to part with these cables, so I found a way to make my own length of flex cables with 0.065 string trimmer line, making the (...) (27 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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