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Alex, Right and right again. It's shocking how many people very quickly answer 10 cents to the second question. Those same people, when told they are wrong, start guessing all manner of wrong answers and never go back and reread the question.

On the first question, if you don't the choose correct mislabeled box (apples & oranges), you have no clue as to how to solve the problem.

Tinman wrote:Concerning the below photo: What is this Lesney Matchbox part?



If you answered an AXLE, you are correct.

I disagree Joe, an axle IMHO has a set of wheels at each end, otherwise it should be referred to as a pin. Therefore it is a crimped pin holding the barrel of the #21 Cement truck in place.

as above

motorman wrote: I disagree Joe, an axle IMHO has a set of wheels at each end, otherwise it should be referred to as a pin. Therefore it is a crimped pin holding the barrel of the #21 Cement truck in place.

The factory had "pins" to work with. They were different than axles and such pins were used on the quarry truck beds, the Triumph motorcycle and some tow hooks to name a few applications. The Axle you are calling a pin would surely have been called an axle in the factory to avoid confusion (since that's what they were used for).

If it is no longer to be called an axle, we will have to go back and rewrite all the guides and books which currently explain that a model's moving parts pivot point was secured either by an axle or a (biff) pin. The term axle, when used on a model's moving part pivot point, has already been accepted in the collecting community for decades.

My turn, my turn...if ''tinman'' had better things to do than give us quizes, how many of us would have had a good nights sleep last night!!!

Ghosty.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:My turn, my turn...if ''tinman'' had better things to do than give us quizes, how many of us would have had a good nights sleep last night!!!

Ghosty.

May the hair of a thousand camels grow on your only daughters upper lip!

Joe I do not want to mess about with the time honoured tradition of the use of the term axle. Personally speaking I feel that it would have been much more accurate If from the off it has been described as a pin, describing it as an axle doesn't fit its ultimate purpose. Describing it as an axle just seems..........wrong.

You say axle, I say Axl - a rose by any other name.

Martin Avis wrote:You say axle, I say Axl - a rose by any other name.

True enough!

Kev, you may have Testophobia.