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| 'All yellow': 1989 First appearance and introduction of the 8862 in the Dutch Lego-Catalog (pic 38&39): (URL) 1990: Cap color changed to black. First seen in the German/French/Italien catalogue. Also the 8854 has the newer black-cap cylinders in (...)   (24 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Re: 8862 pneumatic cylinders 
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| A year ago I made a page for these differences, explaining it to one of my technic-set buyers. I'll upload the page again, for about a week or two. Everybody CHECK IT OUT =>> end of doubts and discussions about this! For now... :-) In my BB-shop I (...)   (24 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Re: Technic new parts in 4x4 off road 8466 
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| (...) Yup! although you do also get 2 pairs of them in the rather cheaper 8465. I was forgetting that the shocks are unique (AFAIK) in that they are more stiffly sprung than the normal long-travel shocks found in 8880 etc, in the same way that (...)   (24 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Re: Technic new parts in 4x4 off road 8466 
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| (...) Also the new thin decorative panels aren't very common (yet). And the wheels are only found in the power puller (AFAIK). ROSCO    (24 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic) 
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|  |  | Re: Technic new parts in 4x4 off road 8466 
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| (...) The main new parts are the compact 4WD/4WS cv joints to replace those used in 8880. So far, the only set to use them. (As 8880 was with its version) Very nice! Pics here: (URL) regards, Chris    (24 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic) 
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