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Re: Flex tube material
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:49:48 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.
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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.
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> Another color these have come in is indigo (a purplish off-blue) in 8250
> Search Sub. 8250 came with three pneumatic tubes...
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> 1 Yellow 7-studs-long
> 1 Gray 51-studs-long
> 1 Indigo 77-studs-long
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> ...and they were actually used for pneumatics in that set. :-)
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> 8002 (the brown ones) just uses the brown pneumatic tubes as decorations.
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 regulator and scuba tank and the 8002 in brown.
Jim
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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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| (...) 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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