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PING: Gary Istok or other old brick experts Kay Archer 11-18-2007
Posted by Kay Archer on November 18, 2007, 8:50 pm
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http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=285917

I have seen (pictures) of bricks with slots in the sides for the old
windows.

What about these bricks with slots in the tubes, but not the sides?
Where do they come from?

Got these in OKC at a resale shop (lucky day).

email kayHYPHENarcher@mail.com

Posted by Jeff Findley on November 19, 2007, 10:41 am
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=285917
>
> I have seen (pictures) of bricks with slots in the sides for the old
> windows.
>
> What about these bricks with slots in the tubes, but not the sides?
> Where do they come from?
>
> Got these in OKC at a resale shop (lucky day).
>
> email kayHYPHENarcher@mail.com

Unfortunatley, I don't know the answer.

I'd try asking on Lugnet. This newsgroup is about as dead as it gets.

Jeff
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everything else becomes easier."
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Posted by Ken Rice on November 19, 2007, 12:37 pm
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kayHYPHENarcher@mail.com says...
>
>http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=285917
>
>I have seen (pictures) of bricks with slots in the sides for the old
>windows.
>
>What about these bricks with slots in the tubes, but not the sides?
>Where do they come from?
>
>Got these in OKC at a resale shop (lucky day).
>
>email kayHYPHENarcher@mail.com

The bricks with slots in the tubes are an old way they made the bricks.

The first Lego bricks made in 1949 had no tubes, but had slots in the sides to
allow fexibility for connecting the bricks together. The tube was introduced in
1958. See here for a chronology of Lego:

http://www.lugnet.com/pause/chronology.html

http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline

The slotted tubes might be in bricks made out of cellulose acetate. That
material was dropped in 1963, and ABS was used from then on. Possibly ABS
bricks did not require the slots for the binding feature.

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