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Re: Help: Query re: 4.5V stuff
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:31:11 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jordan Bradford wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Alan Findlay wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Well, this is my first post to .train, and I hope I've picked the right
> > forum to ask this question. Redirect me if there is a better place.
> >
> > My father-in-law sent my the following picture:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=524472
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> > of a 4.5V box he and my nephew discovered in my brother-in-law's (very) old
> > Lego collection.
> >
> > Being an engineer, my father-in-law disassembled it to try and figure it
> > out, then photographed it and asked for my help.
> >
> > So, what can you tell me about this box? History? Purpose? Future? Any
> > feedback would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alan (a castlehead)
You found some nice old pieces.
> You picked the right forum.
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> The thing in the lower right is a very old 4.5V LEGO train motor. Since it's
> upside-down and disassembled it's harder to see it for what it is. It was
> first made around 1970. The things on the right are obviously the wires to
> connect it to a battery box. The blue plate in the top left appears to be the
> cover (upside-down) of the 4.5V battery box -- the picture you provide is
> missing the rest of it.
The motor and battery box (only the cover on the picture) are from
the 1968 set 102 motor with battery box <http://guide.lugnet.com/set/102>
I own such a battery box, although with a broken cover, so I could check
the inside details.
> It appears that the clear plastic thing on the very
> top with the wires connected has a fuse inside, so that either came from
> inside the train motor or from inside the battery box.
That is not a fuse, that's a light bulb.
From the 1958 lightbrick accessories set 245 <http://guide.lugnet.com/set/245>
I own one of these, although the lightbulb doesn't work anymore.
Niels
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