Are SAMSONITE Gears (1960s Lego) Useful to You?

[DLuders]

There are four BIG Lego gears (produced by Samsonite for TLG in the 1960s) that could be useful for Technic MOCs. Wikipedia's "History of Lego" article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lego ) states that:

"1961 and 1962 saw the introduction of the first Lego wheels, an addition that expanded the potential for building cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles from Lego bricks. Also during this time, the Lego Group introduced toys specifically targeted towards the pre-school market, and made an arrangement allowing Samsonite to begin producing and selling Lego products in Canada, an arrangement that would continue until 1988. There were more than 50 sets of bricks in the Lego System of Play by this time."

As shown on the webpage http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=samsonite+gear , they came in four sizes:

741, "Technic, Gear Samsonite 14 Tooth" (white)

742, "Technc, Gear Samsonite 21 Tooth" (yellow) [#572 in Peeron.com]

743, "Technic, Gear Samsonite 35 Tooth" (blue)

744, "Technic, Gear Samsonite 42 Tooth" (red)

These Samsonite gears have studs all over them. Has anybody used them recently in their TECHNIC MOCs?

[Conchas]

Alex Zorko (nicjasno) did!

http://technicbricks.blogspot.com/2009/11/...heavy-duty.html

See the last example.

[mahjqa]

Yes.

(Well, these aren't the samsonite, but they're similar.)

[Brickthus]

Yes!

I remember the old ideas book from the 70s, when these were all the cogs there were. How I used to wish!

Now, many Technic sets later, we have turntables about the size of the yellow cog, but nothing bigger except tracks and the Hailfire Droid wheel. The objectives have changed, and I want to fit things into smaller spaces!

Mark