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    8862 pneumatic cylinders —David Arnon
   Have there been two versions of <set:8862>? I noticed that someone wrote in the comments to this set [1] that it has "all yellow cylinders" and on Gaurav Thakur's review site it actually appears with yellow cylinders but in all the other pictures I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: 8862 pneumatic cylinders —David Arnon
     Strangely enough, on Technica there is a picture of a 8862 with two regular cylinders and one "all yellow" one. It also says that <set:8044> had one of those all yellow ones. (URL) David (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
    
         Re: 8862 pneumatic cylinders —Rob Stehlik
     (...) I have an all yellow cylinder and pump from the 8044. I didn't know they were 'special'. I guess all of the other new pneumatic cylinders have the black caps. The old pneumatics had some wierd colour variations as well. Most of the cylinders (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
    
         Re: 8862 pneumatic cylinders —Maico Arts
     Hello All (...) regular (...) For as far as I know these elements are the same. Just the color at the top-side is black on newer sets. The first sets with these type of pneumatic all had yellow cylinders. After a few years (I do not know how many) (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: 8862 pneumatic cylinders —Klaas H. Meijaard
     A year ago I made a page for these differences, explaining it to one of my technic-set buyers. I'll upload the page again, for about a week or two. Everybody CHECK IT OUT =>> end of doubts and discussions about this! For now... :-) In my BB-shop I (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: 8862 pneumatic cylinders —Klaas H. Meijaard
     'All yellow': 1989 First appearance and introduction of the 8862 in the Dutch Lego-Catalog (pic 38&39): (URL) 1990: Cap color changed to black. First seen in the German/French/Italien catalogue. Also the 8854 has the newer black-cap cylinders in (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
    
         Re: 8862 pneumatic cylinders —David Arnon
     (...) (URL)Last known changes: the connector-pegs and bushings improved to the newer (...) Thanks! That's very interesting information! It's still weird that they released a poster of a 8862 with both the regular cylinders and the all yellow ones. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: 8862 pneumatic cylinders —Gaurav Thakur
   (...) Hey I also noticed that little thing with the cylinders. The 8862 Backhoe Grader I got was slightly strange; it showed the yellow cylinders on the box and manual but came with the black pistons. I believe this change took place sometime around (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.technic)
 

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