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Re: 5151 Steep Sloped Bricks (45 deg)
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Date: 
Wed, 19 May 1999 15:43:11 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:
The earlier pieces that you describe (a hint of orange in the red >color) are made of Cellulose Acetate.  That was the plastic that LEGO >used in the early years. Unfortunately it has a tendancy to warp.

Yep. Most of my old red roof bricks have warped, especially the 2x4x2
ones, they give a sort of scalloped efffect to the edge of a roof <g>.

What you might have are several 1960's Cellulose Acetate apex
bricks, and a 1960's ABS apex brick?

Could be. At this point it's hard to remember, but I don't think we
bought any roof bricks between about 1970, when I was 12, and 1990 or so
when I was buying them for my daughter. As far as I remember, all the
roof bricks I got in my 'care package" from home <g> were the old
celluose acetate plastic but again I can't be sre, so you may be right -
that one ABS corner apex might have been an old one, not a new one.

Kevin



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(...) Kevin, The earlier pieces that you describe (a hint of orange in the red color) are made of Cellulose Acetate. That was the plastic that LEGO used in the early years. Unfortunately it has a tendancy to warp. I have many examples of early LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.build)

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