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Re: Flex tube material
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:36:40 GMT
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"Christopher Jeris" <cjeris@math.mit.edu> wrote in message
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> Mark Koesel mentioned in his reply that soft flex tube first appeared in
> 1997, on 8250/8299 Search Sub. I'm looking through the catalog scans
> from 1997 to present, and the following sets look like they might have
> soft flex tube in them, besides 8250/8299 and 8002:
> 1997 - 8215 Gyro Copter, 8277 Giant Model Set, 8414 Mountain Rambler,
> 8437 Future Car
> 1998 - 8417 Mag Wheel Master, 8428 Turbo Command
> 1999 - 8246 Hydro Racer, 8253 Fire Helicopter, 8255 Rescue Motorbike
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
who, and I've delete the post already -- pointed out) the "Scuba" Throwbot.
In effect, the soft, rubber tubes are pretty rare, and only available in
yellow and brown to date. They really are pretty specialized pieces.
They provide no structural rigidity, so they are not nearly as useful
(even in a purely cosmetic application) as the rigid, plastic flex tubes.
> These are guesses based only on the fact that I see a flex tube bent
> in a fairly tight curve in these models!
Yep, and this does tend to put a practically permanent bend in the tubes.
But they are pretty darn flexible indeed.
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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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| 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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