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Re: Ageing Lego Bricks
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 17 Mar 2001 04:30:12 GMT
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This isn't a problem with the bricks per se... It's how they were made
in that era. Bricks from the late 70's early 80's had a much tighter
fit. I'd forgotten this until about 4 or 5 months ago when I got a
brand new still in box set from about 1982 and I was putting the bricks
together and remembered the squeak my bricks used to make when I was
younger. It was a very sweet sound to my ears, though sure wreaked
havoc on the hands getting the pieces apart. Then I remembered why a
lot of my bricks from that era have teeth marks in them. My mom got
tired of breaking nails to get pieces apart and made me resort to
whatever I could to do it myself :(
Tamyra
Guido Heunen wrote:
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> Hi
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> Recently I looked into boxes containing some older lego bricks (1970-1985), and
> I was very unhappy when I tried to build something. What happend is that these
> bricks don't fit anymore easily. I had to force them to be connected. To
> deconnect them I had to put (of course) a lot of force on them.
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> An other problem is that all the white bricks (for sure the older ones) change
> colour. Although I keep them in a dark container. For this reason I don't want
> to construct my "white" models
> (such as the hospital (town) and space shuttle (technic))
> because the sunlight (and maybe normal light) makes this problem even worse.
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> Did someone have the same experience and what can I do.
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> Guido
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| Hi Recently I looked into boxes containing some older lego bricks (1970-1985), and I was very unhappy when I tried to build something. What happend is that these bricks don't fit anymore easily. I had to force them to be connected. To deconnect them (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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