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| (...) Tore, It is quite possible that by the time LEGO made black bricks, they started producing the ABS plastic bricks. It's possible that maybe none of the black bricks were made of Cellulose Acetate, which warped over time. Even Cellulose (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Sorting tray suggestion.
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| Hi! I've read a lot of threads about what to use when sorting and/or building. Most seem to favour the old plastic trays that came with larger sets. I got another idea when I was doing some serious cleaning in the kitchen. In our drawers we have (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: is anyone else finding...
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| You know I found my self getting rather board when I was building the Tie Fighter, especially during the cockpit stage. I just thought that I was getting sleepy, or........ I don't know how to describe it. But I found that as I built the Y-Wing my (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Fun with two 4559s and two 5542s
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| I picked up a 2nd 4559 and started into bashing them together. I built a new engine using parts from all the sets, plus bricks from some Freestyle tubs plus a couple Technic plates. I found that one of the drop center train plates wouldn't work for (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Building exhaustion
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| On Sat, 8 May 1999 20:02:02 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) That was common in the instructions of old. I had forgotten about that until I had downloaded the instructions from 565, my 1st set I can remember. Each step (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Minifig torsos...
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| (...) Yup! That was our thought too (Joshua pointed it out to me). Now, other than old Castle queen minifigs with 2x2x2 sloped dresses and galleons figures on the front of pirateships (both of which haven't been in production for eons) what sorts of (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | please help id set(s)
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| Hi, I don't know much about trains, so I hope someone can help me. On Mother's Day, *I* got a gift from the parents -- a box of lego they picked up at yard sale for $2. It looks like very old trains (per Pause: perhaps part of set 113?). Let me list (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Minifig torsos...
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| (...) I think you may be right, though! -- I tried putting a few 1x2 bricks into a couple of the new torsos, and while it seemed like it'd hold better, it sure didn't seem to, just as you'd said. (...) Another weird thing is that I saw one old torso (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Lego "pegging" disks
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| (...) But they DID, way, way back. I still have a set (2 Yellow 3 blue and 2 red) of the old BIG tooth gears. The yellow set is about the size of an 8x8 plate nad has a 5x5 grid of holes. The set has the old white Technic axles and red bushings. (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| | How to reapply stickers?
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| Hi. I have a few old stickers (from 7722 and 7725 to be precise) which are either on the wrong brick or have (apparently) been applied once and stuck back on the sticker sheet. Does anybody have experience, good or bad, with taking stickers off (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Auction Announcement: Town Senior plus Boats
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| Hi all, I will be starting a new auction in a couple of days. What follows below is a list and description of the sets that will be in this auction. I will be adding other sets as we go along. If you would like to be on the update list for this (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: 5151 Steep Sloped Bricks (45 deg)
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| (...) My red roof pieces come in two kinds of plastic: the ones I had as a kid in the 60s are slightly translucent and the moulding is marginally less crisp. The newer ones I bought for my daughter about 1990 are a more opaque red plastic. I just (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Do you separate old vs. new LEGO?
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| I don't, simply because most of my collection falls under the "new" category, if I think I know what Gary is talking about. ;) The only separation I do though is putting the Town Junior parts (I.E. Car bodies, those horrible arch things, etc.) into (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | RE: Lego "pegging" disks
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| Ah yes, I still have quite a few of these pieces, especially the wheels with metal axles and the bricks that accept them. The belt Mario mentioned is great and can be used to turn rotation into linear motion, but it works with the old gears only and (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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