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(...) OK, I guess the next obvious question is this: Does anyone have one or two of these they'd be willing to part with? :-) Private email encouraged, so we don't clog the list... Dave Johnson (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I believe these are still available from Pitsco - sets like "Primary Simple Machines" #779654and "Fun Time Gears" #779652 and others; also spare parts kit "Gears for Primary Simple Machines" #N779838 -Wes (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) They are indeed. I got them for Xmas in '72 or '73, perhaps even '71. They were code colored, if I remember correctly, and came in three sizes: blue, red and yellow. Teeth were widely spaced and had a kind of 'bulbeous' shape: the tip of thr (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I don't have them either. I sold all my old legos when I was about 17 or 18. I still regret that. One of the nice things about these gears is that you could mesh them at various angles, up to 90 degrees. Most current technic gears don't do that. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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