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RE: Plastic Tackle Boxes (Was Re: I'm sorting by color now!)
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Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:12:47 GMT
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Paul wrote:
> For those of you in Australia, there is a very, very similar product
> available at K-Mart for around $10-$12 AUD. Sorry, but I don't remember it's
> name. it comes in two handy compartment distributions and, like the Plano
> product, has fully extended dividers so the pieces don't migrate between
> compartments.
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> I have one slight concern about these molded plastic tackle boxes, which is
> whenever I open one after about a week of being closed, there is a strong
> smell of solvent coming from inside. Presumably this is some sort of solvent
> used to mold the box, which leaks out of the plastic over a very long period
> of time. I have a slight worry that the solvent may be of a type that would
> attack the Lego's ABS, but so far I haven't seen any evidence of this. I
> think that people should keep an eye of the surface appearance of their
> stored pieces though, especially transparent pieces where I would expect any
> change to be the most apparent.
I was a bit concerned too, and although there has been no short
term damage, I don't know about the long term.
I think that the smell is just normal soft plastic outgassing. The plano
boxes are made of a fairly soft plastic, so I don't think it's styrene
or PVC.
Any chemical engineers out there that can shed more light on this subject?
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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| Jim Rorstrom wrote in message ... (...) minifigs, (...) with (...) For those of you in Australia, there is a very, very similar product available at K-Mart for around $10-$12 AUD. Sorry, but I don't remember it's name. it comes in two handy (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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