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RE: Strange "cartoon" gears?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 16:31:02 GMT
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> In lugnet.robotics, Mark Koesel writes:
> > These gears were part of the original "Technical Building Sets" line that
> > was never made available here in the US. All the gears have teeth counts
> > which are multiples of 3. The red gears have 9 (3 x 3), the blue have
> > 15 (3 x 5) and the yellow 21 (3 x 7). The sets contained translucent-ish
> > white technic axles, and grey 2x4 blocks with holes throughout. Red
> > bushings (similar to today's grey technic bushings) were also included.
> > Some sets also had special cast-metal cross axle parts which were used to
> > mount these gears to the 4.5v motors available at that time. The first
> > line of these sets was released in 1970. The sets were 800, 801 and 802.
> > You can see them here:
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> > http://horst-lehner.mausnet.de/lego/katalog/gk70/GK70-16.JPG
I'm pretty sure I have 801, I can remember building a windmill that was
able to shred tissue paper (and fingers if you were not careful).
Check out the prices on the cat sheet. DM270 for the motor kit. Back then
you could get a LOT of Marks for a dollar (about 4 if I remember correctly)
Even so, those were pretty high prices....
Please correct me if I'm wrong about the DM currency.
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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 | | Re: Strange "cartoon" gears?
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| Ralph, The prices quoted are in Austrian shillings. Check out the 'S' symbol for the currency and the listed adress in Wien(=Vienna). I don't know the exact exchange rate at the time, but I'm pretty sure there were several shillings to the German (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Strange "cartoon" gears?
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| What a wonderful post, Mark. Thank you so much. Forwarding to lugnet.faq. This could serve as the definitive entry for the question "What are these strange looking (pre-technic?) gears I've found?" (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.faq)
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