 | | Flex tube material —Christopher Jeris
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| | | I have noticed that thin flex tubing (Technica section 050) appears in at least two different materials. A stiff tube, which will bend with force and has some memory of bends, appears in most of my sets (8286 3-in-1 Car, 8444 Air Enforcer, 8445 Indy (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Philip Ogston
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| | | | | (...) I noticed the floppy tubes too, there are short pieces of it in yellow in both 8250 (search sub) and 8503 (throwbot scuba). I tend to think of it as thin pneumatic tubing, rather than floppy flex tubing, perhaps because in both these sets it's (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Philip Ogston
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| | | | | | (...) Sorry to reply to my own message, I just knew that I couldn't actually write anything that short. Actually, the thin rubbery tubes have the same inner diameter as regular pneumatic tubes, even though the outer diameter is considerably smaller. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm, same inner diameter -- that would mean they'd work just fine as pneumatic tubes, then, right? (Unless they'd *pop* because they're too thin? :) --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Philip Ogston
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| | | | | | (...) Yup, I tried it. But considering that I have only two small pieces of thin tubing and probably about 20 feet total of regular pneumatic tubing... (can't get T connectors without buying tube, just got two more service packs :-) It crossed my (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, you can...I have way more T's than pneumatic sets--they're used as details in Model Team engines, eg, 5571 comes with eight. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pneumatic T connectors (was Re: Flex tube material) —Philip Ogston
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks for the tip! I've thought about buying Model Team sets, and this is one more enticement. Does anyone know of other model team (or other genre) sets which contain pneumatic T connectors? By the way, I looked quickly at the Lugnet entry (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pneumatic T connectors (was Re: Flex tube material) —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | (...) They are used on the engine, which would be hidden in the lugnet picture. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material) —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | (...) 5571 has an 8 cylinder engine under the hood. Inserted in the hole in the middle of each cylinder (2x2 round brick), is a T connector. I would guess that some of the other cars with engines, such as the Blue Fury, *might* have T connectors... (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam)
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| | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | (...) Cool! I've found that the traditional flex tub straws are a bit too rigid for my taste, so a more "floppy" version fits my taste just perfectly! How about the tan flex system straws seen in 8001? Are they of the floppy, bendy type too, or the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Christopher Jeris
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| | | | | | Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) No, the flex tube appearing in 8000 and 8001 is the stiff kind (it's used to make radio antennas, and body lines on the head of 8001). Mark Koesel mentioned in his reply that soft flex tube first appeared (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Mark Koesel
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| | | | | | "Christopher Jeris" <cjeris@math.mit.edu> wrote in message news:FqGDMC.HvE@lugnet.com... [snip (...) Actually, all of these sets use the rigid tubes. The soft tubes are only used on 8250/8299, 8002, and (as someone else -- sorry I can't remember (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Well, actually, they're just plain old pneumatic tubing, nothing special. They're much shinier nowadays than they were back in the late 70's, but it's still just basically the same old pneumatic tubing. Another color these have come in is (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | (...) Three other examples of gray pneumatic tubing are the ones that came in 6160 Sea Scorpion, 6180 Hydro Search Sub, and 6198 Sting Ray Stormer (all 1998 Aquazone sets). Each of those tube is gray and 19-studs-long. --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Jim Hughes
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| | | | | | (...) The brown soft flexible tubing in the 8002 set is different from pneumatic tubing, it has thinner walls and has a smaller diameter. To my knowledge this tubing came with one of the throwbots, the 8250/8299 as the connection between the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Ho-HO! Wow, so there are TWO (maybe 3?) kinds of rubber tubing? 1. Real pneumatic tubing, as seen in pneumatic sets and in the 1998 Aquazone sets, and 2. This new thinner rubber tubing, as seen in 8002 Destroyer Droid and 8503 Scuba. How does (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Jim Hughes
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| | | | | | | (...) I dont have the tubing from 483 but I suspect it is the same as the tubing in 854/948 Go-cart (which I also dont have!). (...) The flexible tubing has a slightly smaller id and od compared to the hard plastic flex tubing (which taken with flex (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | (...) They should be same ones from 8841 Desert Racer and 8860 Auto Chassis. I may not be correct, but they have a little larger outer diameter and a little bit larger inner diameter as well. Their appearance is duller and their color is more black (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Mark Koesel
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| | | | | | "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FqGInA.K66@lugnet.com... (...) pneumatic (...) Aquazone (...) This tubing was the same type used in early Technic models. It was discontinued when the new pneumatic cylindars were introduced (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Mark Koesel
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| | | | | "Christopher Jeris" <cjeris@math.mit.edu> wrote in message news:FqEKx2.JuE@lugnet.com... (...) [snip] (...) The rigid flex tubes first appeared in 1991 in sets 8074 Universal and 8856 Whirlwind Rescue. In these sets the tubing was used soley with a (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | Mark Koesel wrote: <snip> (...) But the yellow ones (from 8207, 8286 and 8479) have dull and the brown (dark gray?) ones (from 8230, 8286, 8422, 8425, 8440, 8443, 8459 and 8479) have bright outer surfaces, though I might be wrong. Selçuk (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Flex tube material —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I think you've confused Flex System tubing with Pneumatic tubing. The rubber tubes which come in 8002 and 8250, for instance, aren't Flex System tubes -- they're rubber pneumatic tubes. --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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