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Re: Strange "cartoon" gears?
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Date: 
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 03:10:54 GMT
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My mistake, should have waited to see the picture.  These gears came after the
ones I posted about previously (white, yello, blue, red) and used the technic
holes and axels, but mesh with the older style gears.  I only had one set of
these 'in-between' gears sets which my Dad brought back from Hong Kong some
time in the 70s...

Brent Rager

> Yes, these gears are from the late 60s, I have quite a few as my parents kept
> my Legos.  There is a white gear which just fits on the old small wheel (4
> studs), a yellow gear which fits on the larger wheel, a larger blue gear, and
> the largest of the gears is the red one you saw.  They do not mesh with the
> technic gears, but are definitely easier for younger hands to use.
> 
> Brent Rager
> 
> In lugnet.robotics, Dave Johnson writes:
> > I was perusing the web and found "Tim's Lego Pages" that showed his
> > "Kitty Tormentor" robots: they shoot rubber bands. Very cool!
> > 
> > The rubber bands are mounted on a kind of "cartoony" gear with widely
> > spaced teeth, bright red. I thought at first it was a custom piece, but
> > then I saw them again at Marcus's excellent Lego site
> > (http://www.fischer-mellbin.com/Marcus/Lego/lego.html) in his "Gear Math"
> > section.
> > 
> > What are these gear pieces? What sets include them? Duplo, maybe?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Dave Johnson



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  Re: Strange "cartoon" gears?
 
Yes, these gears are from the late 60s, I have quite a few as my parents kept my Legos. There is a white gear which just fits on the old small wheel (4 studs), a yellow gear which fits on the larger wheel, a larger blue gear, and the largest of the (...) (27 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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