LEGO TECHNIC : 4796


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Subject:	RE: Small Axle
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2001 17:14:26 GMT
Reply-To:	<bram@po.cwruNOSPAM.edu>
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Selçuk Göre writes: > * Very easily broken 1/2 bushes: New design is more flexible. Compare: > http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=4265a > http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=4265b Hmm, I'm not sure this is a matter of flexibility. The old half-bushings were tighter than the newer ones, which is sometimes desirable. They probably changed them for the same reason they changed the friction pins...too hard to remove from constructions. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/

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		Re: Small Axle
(...) I'm not sure I agree with that one. The old half bushings, the ones with a full cross axle hole, were actually quite loose, in my opinion. The later ones, with a "time glass shaped" hole, were tighter. Then came the third type, without the (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.technic)

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		Re: Small Axle
(...) during the old times (before my dark ages) 2L axles don't have the notches that you describe, but they naturally gain some irregular notches while trying to put it from a technic connector/toggle connector piece. Actually I remember I was (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)

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