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Re: Plastic Tackle Boxes (Was Re: I'm sorting by color now!)
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lugnet.build
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Sun, 7 Nov 1999 19:33:40 GMT
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Allan Bedford wrote in message <01bf28b3$1a3e22c0$5f1aefd1@apotome>...
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> > > smell of solvent coming from inside. Presumably this is some sort of
> solvent
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> 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.
The smell is definitely not from the Lego, I made a point of checking the
new containers for the smell when I'd opened them for the first time, before
I'd put any Lego inside.
> > 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.
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> 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.
Ewww!!! What happened to the sports cards stored in PVC pages?
Paul
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