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    Has anyone noticed this? Is it even important? —Anthony Sava
   In a recent discussion over at Classic-Castle about maces, something came to my attention. The whole discussion is over this: (URL) It's a design for a minifig mace that I've been using for five years or so. I've never had a problem with it, but (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Has anyone noticed this? Is it even important? —Bruce Schlickbernd
     I looked at my two maces - one has the old gear and one the new. The new one grips better than the old, not worse, but neither slips. I don't feel like disassembling my flails to test the fit on the gears. I'll dig out more gears as I come across (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Has anyone noticed this? Is it even important? —Kevin L. Clague
     (...) This depends on the axle and the gear and how much they have been used. Are your 8T gears very used? The plastic used seems malliable. I have to match gears and axles to get a good fit. Kevin (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, FTX)
    
         Re: Has anyone noticed this? Is it even important? —Anthony Sava
     (...) I'm not a technic guy, I bought the new ones as 'new' from various bricklink sellers in order to build my Red Dragon, these were left overs. The old gears come from sets I bought and parted out. I've never used any of the gears that I compared (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Has anyone noticed this? Is it even important? —Paulo Renato
     (...) Hi Anthony and All, I definitely think that this is a different plastic. A softer (and slightly different colored) one. (Not unlike 1x1 lightgrey plate with clip when compared to regular 1x1 lightgrey plate.) I've noticed this change some (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, FTX)
   
        Re: Has anyone noticed this? Is it even important? —Peter Ehrlich
   Another part that has been changed is the black friction pin. (URL) am not entirely sure which is old and which is new actually :) Has this been noticed before? (...) -- Peter ---...--- Only when you try to build with Mega Bloks or you try to make a (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)
 

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