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Re: A brick in page 10 of #7777
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Sun, 3 Dec 2000 10:07:49 GMT
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"Rick Clark" <jrclark@nospam.aol.com> wrote in message
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> Of course, the question is begged, what are/were the two small sticks for, • or
> what do they mate with?
> I'd be surprised if they were purely decorative...
> And then, why were they removed from the part recently?
The 'sticks' keep the tipper bucket in place, they fit between studs so the
bucket hangs [1]. When the bucket is 'tipped' it rotates around one of the
'sticks'. This way the rotational center is not in the middle of the bucket
so the contents is poured out of the waggon and not on it's base as it would
if there was only one 'stick'.
It was made redundant by fitting the bucket onto a rotating axis so the
bucket 'sits' on the waggon instead of hangs between two pillars (this
lowers the rotational center and has the same effect as the two sticks).
Also this piece was used in Technic buldozer[2] where the sticks are not
used at all.
I guess the sticks were a fragile part of the piece (I have seen a few
broken pieces) so it was probably better to remove the sticks altogether.
-Frank
[1] http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0725-1974/0725-07.html step 4
[2] http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0856/0856-08.html
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 | | Re: A brick in page 10 of #7777
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| Of course, the question is begged, what are/were the two small sticks for, or what do they mate with? I'd be surprised if they were purely decorative... And then, why were they removed from the part recently? Anyone? Rick C. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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