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RE: Medium gears.... New ones are different!
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lugnet.technic
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Date:
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Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:41:23 GMT
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Mark wrote...
> Wow, really, that long ago? I can't believe I never noticed this.
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> "Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message
> news:m3puwhq3dv.fsf@sade.uio.no...
> > "R2" <r2eng@primenet.com> writes:
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> > > http://www.primenet.com/~r2eng/gears.jpg
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> > I believe this happened some years ago. Could it have been in 1997 or
> > 1998? Or even earlier?
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> > The new one was probably introduced because it is somewhat more solid.
> > I remember breaking a few of the old ones when I was a child.
I came upon this grisly revelation preparing for Mindfest. I noticed that the
logo was part of a 24T gear, and if you take a pie section at the right spot
it looks like two kids holding hands. OK, maybe they can be adults too.
Anyways, I ran upstairs to show this to my kids and pulled a gear out of my
Mindtorms tackle box and found to my dismay, that the new gears had no extra
holes like in the logo!!! Horrors!
Thinking about it now, I started into heavy acquisition mode about 2 years
ago, and the sets I picked were mainly pre 97. Maybe because the newer sets
just didn't appeal to me. :-(
Maybe it's time to re-issue some Technic Classic, like the Basic sets in the
System line. I can see it now - Crane Truck Classic with realistic wheels...
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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