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(URL) scan shows an old accessory pack of (pre studless) Lego elements. It cleary describes them as beams. So can we stop calling beams, bricks, when they're obviously beams, and can we call the new imposters studless beams therefore creating a (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) argument. What better way to destroy the memory of the old part than to reuse it's name. Actually as I said before they're both beams. The old type is the default beam so gets the short hand 'beam'. In order to distinguish the new type from (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) That set description was supplied by LUGNET data admins, not by TLC. The curly brackets indicate this. AFAIK, the traditional TLC name for those parts with studs and pin holes are "Technic Bricks". But "beam" has been commonly used for some (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Bricks have studs, Beams do not, They are good, For some SNOT. (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The scan is german and the part name translates as 'bar'. I'd say that was closer to beam than brick. Steve (URL) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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I agree with Steven with another example: (URL) also an Lego Service from -88 (mint) that says 'Beams with holes' (swe: Bjälkar med hål) I wish that some of the stuff was available today :) /Pehter (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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And just to make it really fun ... I've just received some replacement parts from Billund and the delivery note describes p/n 32009 (LDraw name "Technic Liftarm 1 x 11.5 double bent") as "Double Angular Beam 3x7 45degree" 3 x 7???? William (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Those are the lengths of the perpendicular segments - seems a strange way to identify it though... ROSCO (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.technic)
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