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Re: Heeeelp! My lego is cracking (and I'm not joking)
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:07:36 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Tobbe Arnesson writes:
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> Seems you put too much stress on your parts.
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> Remember that it's plastic and a toy and can't handle whatever you throw at
> them.
Well, I have similar experience, and my opinion is it's because of age.
My oldest parts did the same and I didn't do anything wrong to them (I mean
things like lot of load, stress or anything) All I did was I built a model
and than I left it several years on shelf. I think ABS becomes more crispy
through years as "softener" (or how to call the stuff that makes plastic
elastic) very slowly disappears (I am not a chemist so I don't know if ABS,
but things made from PVC do have this problem). Axle joiners are under
constatnt stress even when put on axles (you can see how they become
slightly deformed when you put them on) so once they just break. But it's
just a hypothese as I didn't made any tests (LEGO bricks are just too
expensive here.. )
Does anybody have different experience? (e.g. 20 years old parts in
excellent condition and so on? )
bye rob
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| (...) Hm... That's a first AFAIK. Seems you put too much stress on your parts. Remember that it's plastic and a toy and can't handle whatever you throw at them. The axles seems to be bending due to side force and the other parts due to twisting. (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.technic)
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