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Re: Plastic Tackle Boxes (Was Re: I'm sorting by color now!)
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Sun, 7 Nov 1999 00:01:21 GMT
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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.
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> I was a bit concerned too, and although there has been no short
> term damage, I don't know about the long term.
I notice the same smell coming not from my Plano boxes, but from large
quantities of basic bricks stored in LEGO buckets or tubs. I thought it
was the LEGO itself.
> 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.
Does anybody manufacture with PVC anymore? I know that hard lessons were
learned by coin and sports card collectors when their album pages were made
from PVC. But I thought that there were newer plastics that had eliminated
the need for PVC. Not sure, just putting the idea out.
Regards,
Allan
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