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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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| 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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| "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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| "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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