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Re: Heeeelp! My lego is cracking (and I'm not joking)
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.general
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Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:42:13 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Robert Seifert writes:
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> 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? )
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> bye rob
A question for all: Is 5 years too old??? My first lego was bought ending
1997 and I stopped buying in 1999, when no good sets were arriving to
Colombia... and because they are too expensive here too.
I never leave a model more than 2 months "on shelf"... but maybe I don't
dismantle it totally, so there can be an axle joiner that has been on an
axle for months. Is it too much stress using the axle joiners for building a
front suspension system, including the steering?
And yes, the fissures in my axle joiners are not so vissible until they're
put on axles. 3 of my axle joiners (2 of them are on the photo) have a full
fissure... I mean, the fissure goes from one side of the joiner to the
other... or in other words, the axle joiner is broken, but still receives axles.
Thanks a lot.
Luis Miguel
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| (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-02, to lugnet.technic)
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