Random part of the day: Plate 1X2 W. Horizontal Hole Ø4,85 Rev.
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random part is 18677, 'Plate 1X2 W. Horizontal Hole Ø4,85 Rev.', which is a System part, category Plates, Special.
Our members collectively own a total of 385,640 of them. If you'd like to buy some you should find them for sale at BrickLink.
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It must be hard to categorise LEGO parts. I would have put this under Technic because of the pinhole attachment (and I do sort it out that way in my parts bins), but I can also see this as being a modified plate.
I miss the years of use being on these pieces like they were in 2020. Now I have to go look at the piece to see when it was introduced and if it’s still used. I know some parts had new numbers so it would show up with something like a 2x4 brick being introduced in 2002, but I feel like it would still be interesting to include…or at the very least if the part is still in use or ended years ago.
This part is more useful than I thought it would be when I first saw it. It's very useful for getting that half stud offset is ship hulls.
And it's always better in black.
@ElephantKnight said:
"This part is more useful than I thought it would be when I first saw it. It's very useful for getting that half stud offset is ship hulls.
And it's always better in black."
Or lime green! Though this part doesn't seem to have gotten that treatment
@MeisterDad:
Ah, this one’s easy. It’s shaped like a “P”, for modified Plate.
@Rob42:
Regarding the minifig stand from yesterday, HP1 happens to be the last wave that was exclusively produced in China. TLM2 was the first to have global production.
I like this part, and I never seem to have enough of it. It can be pretty handy for things that either Technic bricks or 2444 and 2817 can't do.
@PurpleDave
I did not know CMF production expanded to other factories, makes sense then that that's when the other mould starts being used for them.
I expected more than 300,000
@ElephantKnight said:
"This part is more useful than I thought it would be when I first saw it. It's very useful for getting that half stud offset is ship hulls.
And it's always better in black."
Off-topic but there's a Blacktron 2 colored lamp in the 41704 : Main Street Building :)
(second floor dark pink/azure building)
On-topic , love this part , Design number 28809 is the other design number that has seen a lot more use.
@EDHS1989 said:
"I expected more than 300,000"
It's because this design number was only limited use between 2015-2017 used 25 times.
The Design number 28809 is the same part but used from 2015-2022 used 395 times.
This part screams The Bad Batch Shuttle for me nowadays (the current version, at least)
A useful piece to get those tricky hinges just right
@TeriXeri said:
" @EDHS1989 said:
"I expected more than 300,000"
It's because this design number was only limited use between 2015-2017 used 25 times.
The Design number 28809 is the same part but used from 2015-2022 used 395 times."
I believe that part had the pin hole on the other side.
@Kynareth said:
" @TeriXeri said:
" @EDHS1989 said:
"I expected more than 300,000"
It's because this design number was only limited use between 2015-2017 used 25 times.
The Design number 28809 is the same part but used from 2015-2022 used 395 times."
I believe that part had the pin hole on the other side."
The reverse part (pin hole on top) is Design number 11458 used 639 times
@PurpleDave said:
" @MeisterDad:
Ah, this one’s easy. It’s shaped like a “P”, for modified Plate."
If you turn it the other way round, it's "b" for brick :-p
Can never have enough of these, even yesterdays AT-ST 75322 has 8 of them to hold the vertical plates etc., and has appeared in 215 sets in this grey colour, although there are 7 other colours including pink? Seems to have replaced using a Technic brick to connect a Technic beam to a system plate because of offset, smaller so can have at an angle, and can build around the plate to secure better. There is also a mirror version with the pin hole on top 6114987, which comes in far more colours as usually more visible on top.
I really like this part, and it's even pretty cheap on Bricklink. I might buy a lot of quantity of this part.
@Rob42:
A lot of changes happened to the regular CMF line while they were distracting everyone with Unikitty blind bags (which were a whole different thing with a completely unique packaging). The packets changed, the inserts changed, some got inner bags that appear to be intended to help protect cloth elements, and production went from _just_China_ to about five different countries (off the top of my head, Denmark, Hungary, Czech Republic, Mexico, and of course China). One of the big driving forces behind this was probably the expense involved in transitioning any CMF-original element to regular retail sets, since every mold used to produce CMF parts stayed in China, but retail sets only used a handful of parts produced there (usually oddball minifig elements that were individually bagged, or bagged in groups that were partitioned off from each other, like Buzz Lightyear’s gear). Set designers wanted access to that wild array of new elements, but basically had to pitch them like brand-new designs if they wanted to get production of new molds approved. Mostly this tended to happen for hairstyles, unless someone came up with a really convincing reason that they needed some accessory, or it was something that would receive wide support. So stuff like the surfboard made the jump, but the first Aztec headdress has not.
@Wrecknbuild:
And if you flip it around two more times, it’s a “q” or a “d”, for Quit Deflecting.
@ambr:
This puts a beam or Technic brick half a stud off of grid. There’s another part that’s usually used for mounting wheels that keeps the pin holes between the studs where they normally go.