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Re: Flex tube material
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:01:58 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Jim Hughes writes:
> The brown soft flexible tubing in the 8002 set is different from pneumatic
> tubing, it has thinner walls and has a smaller diameter.
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 the old black rubber tubing from 483 Alpha-1 Rocket Base compare?
That's not shiny like the newer pneumatic tubing, but is it the same
thickness?
> 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.
I can confirm this, at least for 8002 and 8503 -- just checked, and they are
the same diameter, and both definitely thinner than regular pneumatic tubing.
But these still aren't Flex System tubes, right?? A Flex System inner-cable
does fit sorta cleanly into the thinner rubber tubes, but gives LOTS of
resistance when turning or sliding -- unlike the real Flex System plastic
outer tubes, which glide most wonderfully. :)
--Todd
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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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| | Re: Flex tube material
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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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