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OK, I know some people out there have lost much more during their dark ages... I just feel like bickering so if you don't mind... I'll proceed now... When I was six and a half, I moved (back) to Israel from Kansas, US. The first set I got in Israel (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Oh no! I sympathize with you... But if it makes you feel any better, I have a post-Dark Ages experience to share involving over 20 gray castle walls. When I started again this year I was watching all of the auctions on Ebay trying to get a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Christopher Lindsey writes: <snip painful details> (...) Ouch, ouch... OMG... I also had a few melted bricks from my Hannuka Menorah... I thought it would be safe to light candles in it, so long as I put aluminum foil between the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle) !
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Christopher Lindsey wrote in message <38EC0DA3.5318EC29@n...rn.com>... (...) that to (...) *still* (...) that (...) I have had some (Wait a sec, do I post this here?) pretty sick Lego's appear before my eyes. I’ve discovered a way to clean my Lego (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) My solution is to SOAK the bricks. Soon after I get used LEGO which is grungy, I put it in a bucket of warm soapy water, and leave it in the kitchen until I have time to process it. A LOT of stuff will soak off, though smoke smell doesn't. A (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Here is an idea for TLG: lego cleaner: a oproduct specificly designed for cleaning lego parts, designed so that it wont leave residue on the bricks, damage the bricks or melt ABS. You could market it in toy shops or whatever in the lego (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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(...) Whoa. I will now do this. Thanks. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) For smokey LEGO, you only need to do Pine-Sol soak and then a soap washing, no need to do a soap cycle before the Pine-Sol (though I suppose if the pieces are extremely grungy it might be worth it). I also sometimes do an extra soap soak (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) What I now do (now that I've learned my lesson :) is to fill up the upstairs bathroom sink with warm water, dump the legos in there, and then pump a few spurts of Dial antibacterial soap in. I swirl it around, let it sit for an hour, rinse, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@nospam.mallorn.com> wrote in message news:38ECC6AB.25D11A...orn.com... (...) Aren't you afraid than when you let the water out, you'll loose a brick down the drain. I soak mine in a dishpan. The smaller pieces I have (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Although always washing any Lego elements picked up from boot sales, charity shops etc I've found that the worst cases are those amongst my own collection which have been played with a lot. When I left the dark ages about three years ago I (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Jonathan Reynolds <scorch@tinyworld.co.uk> wrote in message news:Fso1BF.3qs@lugnet.com... (...) charity (...) collection (...) years (...) years (...) bricks (...) the (...) People in general seem to really dislike discolored brick. I don't (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Actually, some of those culprits are probably older CA bricks & plates, which were used for Lego before they switched to ABS. Presumably, one of the reasons they switched from CA is because it is much more susceptible to UV warping and (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The problem is that discolored bricks usually end up looking horrible when mixed with newer bricks. For one thing, it really highlights the size of the bricks (unless you build your walls out of 1x2 bricks, the bricks will be much larger in (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Very good points! Especially when working with white. It is amazing that most of my biggest bricks (1x10 and bigger) are always off color and can make a really nice project look terrible. I soak my Lego and then scrub them all with a (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hah!! This post was... almost half a year ago... proof to how lazy and/or scatter-brained I am. <grin> ... never mind that the Menorah itself was made nearly a year ago... Well, better late than never, no?... (URL) been digging through our (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.fun.holiday) !
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Do the people represent you or your family members? ~M (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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(...) Hehe, actually not, they were intended to be the newly-wed "stars" of my website. This was before I had been ultimately sucked into castle, and before Scar existed, even. Ummm.... yeah. Sam and Sam, I called them (reflecting the irony of (...) (24 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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