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What store did you buy your Znaps in? I've tried Zellers, The Bay, Wal-Mart, and TRU here in Toronto. -- ~mek~ (remove cc from atkincc to email me) Dean Husby wrote in message <392C611F.F710D1A2@a....bc.ca>... (...) Great (...) out of (...) Bridges? (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: $20 Znap sets WITH 9V MOTOR !!!
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(...) Sadly YES. I just bough the yellow/black car. Motor + Wire + 9 Volt Box. Great deal for $30 CDN! The two flex axles are GREAT! I plan on making a bridge out of the black parts. Any URL's with pics and maybe building instructions for Bridges? (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Toronto, Ontario Canada
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Ah ha, you're not from around there are ye? Anyway, I drove down there without looking in the telephone book to confirm and paid the price. :) The store is actually at Younge and Eglinton, And to make it worse they didn't have any Znaps. :( -- ~mek~ (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: ZNAP at GR TRU!
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(...) Since there are no 2000 Znap sets, I wouldn't hold my breath for service packs. However, some sets have more bumble bees (yellow/black hinged connectors) than others. For just useful pieces, I've found the best source for black pieces (beams (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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(...) with (...) The trouble is you only get a couple per set! They are certainly handy pieces though. I wonder when Znap service packs will become available ;) JB (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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(...) How about the yellow and black "swivel connector"? It's a yellow 1-beam, with knobs at each end, and two black rings wrapped around the middle, with a knob on each ring. The rings can rotate independently, positioning the two knobs anywhere (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: ZNAP at GR TRU!
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(...) Besides the other responses, this information might help: (URL) McC/ (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Which set to buy?
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I've bought a number of copies of several of the larger sets: 3551, 3552, 3571, 3591 as well as dozens of the smaller ones. I haven't done a part analysis, but it seems like I get proportionally more straight beams in the larger sets. I'd recommend (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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It's time for me to buy more $2 of Znap. I just want a lot of straight beams and connectors. Does anybody want to recommend a set out of those currently available at TRU? (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: ZNAP as framework (was ZNAP at GR TRU!)
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After a few observation sessions at the 383 Madison Av building site (that's in New York where my company is building anew) I have decided to try just a cubic lattice. No triangular beam thingies, and I don't yet know what a Znap "panel" is that (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: ZNAP at GR TRU!
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(...) I DID! Or at least that was the start of this whole exercise, I went basement shopping and happened to find a nice one with a nice house attached too. (...) I knew it was going up for sale but not how much, what WAS the price (the more, the (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: ZNAP as framework (was ZNAP at GR TRU!)
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Thanks for the report! I hadn't thought of flexibility as an advantage. Now that you bring it up, it could be really cool, because it's another fact of life in a big city that will become exaggerated in the model. Except that instead of a 100-story (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: ZNAP at GR TRU!
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(...) Have you ever thought that maybe you need to get a house with a bigger basement? <gdr> In totally non-related news, I noticed in Sunday's GR Press that the Big White Cube at the end of your street has gone up for sale. I was staggered at the (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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| | ZNAP as framework (was ZNAP at GR TRU!)
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I'm building ZNAP choo-choo bridges as well. One is 6 feet long and carries two levels of trains, so I have some feel for how ZNAP would extend to large-scale construction frames. ZNAP is softer than TECHNIC beams; it flexes a lot more, which has (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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(...) Not yet, just test assemblies. Too much stuff in my basement to work on anythihg serious. (...) I don't know for sure. Preliminary tests are good. Big problem I see is the change in direction challenge. Assuming you're using the ZNAP parts in (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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(...) Other than bridges for your choo-choo, have you built any large structures incorporating ZNAP pieces? I see there's a message (maybe a thread by now) about using ZNAP for structural frameworks on buildings, but no positive conclusion. I'm (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Toronto, Ontario Canada
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When did they build a TRU there? -- ~mek~ (remove cc from atkincc to email me) Greg Vander Mark wrote in message ... (...) All (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Toronto, Ontario Canada
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(...) Try the TRU at Young(sp?) and Dundas. If what I suspect really happened, All the TRU's have started carrying Znap stuff. (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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Is Znap available around here some where? -- ~mek~ (remove cc from atkincc to email me) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Znap with bricks, for tall buildings
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Hi, Znap came to a nearby TRU so I bought the 3510 polybag to check it out. I wonder about using Znap for a skyscraper skeleton. Does anybody have a working scheme for this? Below are some of my thoughts so far. Why do it? Load-bearing brick walls (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.znap, lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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