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| | | (...) 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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| | | | | Re: What is the difference between... ? —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) I wondered if it had been discussed on rec.toys.lego at some point. This was the earliest posting where someone asked if this should be the name or not. It's from about 6 1/2 years ago. (URL) (a) There didn't seem to be a consensus, and yet... (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: What is the difference between... ? —David Arnon
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| | | | (...) <set:5280> Thanks for a very interesting post, - David (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: What is the difference between... ? —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | (...) Good link... thanks! For some reason (in my little brain) those are the only ones I call liftarms. And for the triangles, I use the nickname 'hanger' since they sort of look like clothes hangers... well, at least to me. (...) Not a problem. :) (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: What is the difference between... ? —Juergen Stuber
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| | | | (...) Thanks, that explains where it comes from. So liftarms should be those which have axle holes at the end, otherwise it'll be hard to lift things with them, right? Jürgen (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: What is the difference between... ? —Jonathan MacIntyre
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| | | | | "Juergen Stuber" <stuber@loria.fr> wrote in message news:861xq5i9ys.fsf@loria.fr... (...) studs on it as a liftarm. Parts like x200, 2825, 32348 and even 32482. I don't think TLC thought out how the naming was going to work when designing the (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: What is the difference between... ? —Paul Krieg
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| | | | (...) Hi Mark, I would agree with Jürgen. It seems to be a reasonable definition and a good way to further distinguish between to very similar classes of parts that may have uses that are unique to their own classes. I also found this ooold post (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.technic)
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