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Re: Flex tube material
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:44:42 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Koesel writes:
> 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.
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> In effect, the soft, rubber tubes are pretty rare, and only available in
> yellow and brown to date. They really are pretty specialized pieces.
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 indigo (a purplish off-blue) in 8250
Search Sub. 8250 came with three pneumatic tubes...
1 Yellow 7-studs-long
1 Gray 51-studs-long
1 Indigo 77-studs-long
...and they were actually used for pneumatics in that set. :-)
8002 (the brown ones) just uses the brown pneumatic tubes as decorations.
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
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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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| | Re: Flex tube material
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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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