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Re: ABS... but which one?
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Jim Hughes
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 3 Jan 2003 03:30:01 GMT
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Jim Hughes <hughesj@one.net+SayNoToSpam+>
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Pedro:
Your assumptions are absolutely correct. Most of Lego's plastic is a special
(top secret) version of Bayer Novodur. Lego also uses a version of Lustran and,
more recently, a version of Makrolon. If you spend enough time on the Bayer
site they have plenty of promotional mentions of being Lego's supplier. Note
that all of Lego's plastic is specially formulated for Lego.
In an older post I guessed that Legos version of Novodur was probably closest
to Novodur P2M-V:
http://news.lugnet.com/technic/?n=6920
BTW Bayer also sells the plastic colorant for most of Legos bricks in the form
of Macrolex.
I do think that in the last several years there have been formulation changes
although I dont have any specifics. I have also noticed the shininess and oily
feeling of new bricks
--Jim
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 | | Re: ABS... but which one?
| Pedro Silva
| (...) Great research, by the way. I would have taken longer to find out LEGO references in Bayer's website, mainly because I were not *expecting* there would be any... turns out they are proud of their role as suppliers - and they have reasons for (...) (10 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | ABS... but which one?
| Pedro Silva
| Hi all, Some years ago I recall seeing an article about LEGO, where there was a small image of ABS granules being fed to a moulding machine. Back then I did not care too much about it, but now it appeared interesting enough to investigate... So I (...) (10 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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