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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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| | | | | Re: My forestmen loss —Sheree Rosenkrantz
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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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| | | | | | Re: My forestmen loss —Jonathan Reynolds
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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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| | | | | | Re: My forestmen loss —Sheree Rosenkrantz
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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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| | | | | | | Re: My forestmen loss —Frank Filz
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: My forestmen loss —Brian Kasprzyk
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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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| | | | | | Re: My forestmen loss —James Brown
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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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| | | | | | Re: My forestmen loss —Frank Filz
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