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Subject:	Re: Strange "cartoon" gears?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:47:50 GMT
Original-From:	Jim West <JIM@JAMESWESTnomorespam.COM>
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I posted a couple of pix of these at: http://www.jameswest.com/lego/gearstop.jpg http://www.jameswest.com/lego/gearbottom.jpg At 10:45 PM 12/12/99 +0000, Tim Rueger wrote: > In lugnet.robotics, Dave Johnson writes: > [...] > > What are these gear pieces? What sets include them? Duplo, maybe? > > I got mine (with caterpillar tracks to fit them) in > the 780 Road Construction Set: > > http://www.io.com/~rueger/lego/models/favorites/set780.html > > I used them as wheels in Joe Lauher's building contest > a couple years back: > > http://www.io.com/~rueger/lego/models/MOC/redrover1.html > > They were also available (in addition to other places > mentioned) in the 404 Universal Set from the late 70's. > > More interestingly, a European "Gear Supplement" set (#801) > contained a number of sizes of this type of gear. And just > recently, I picked up a copy of it from Matt Chiles' "The > Vault": > > http://www.goldendale.net/buildingblocks/thevault/index.htm > > It's not listed there now, but it couldn't hurt to see if he > can get some more. > > -Tim

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		Strange "cartoon" gears?
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 (...) (27 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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