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Subject: 
What is the difference between... ?
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Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:11:41 GMT
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Okay... stupid question time.

What is the difference between a studless beam and a straight liftarm?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

>> Mark



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  Re: What is the difference between... ?
 
(...) Length? ~Mike (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: What is the difference between... ?
 
(...) Terminology? The naming conventions for the "studless beams" is haphazard at best. LDraw calls the "studless beams" liftarms, but others who do not use LDraw tools simply refer to them as studless beams. Lego is also pretty inconsistent about (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: What is the difference between... ?
 
(...) Nothing. They're called Straight Liftarms in Ldraw and the Bricklink catalog, but some of us old fogies that still remember studded beams (called "Technic bricks" by you young 'uns) call them studless beams. ROSCO (21 years ago, 11-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: What is the difference between... ?
 
(...) What is a liftarm anyway? My dictionaries don't know it, and I never heard of it outside of the LEGO technic context. Jürgen "old fogie" (21 years ago, 11-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)

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