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(...) I could probably repeat Johns words in respect to the newest gears in the technic line. I still don't have any 36 tooth gears, as their only available in the spybotics line, which dosn't appeal to me. I'm not complaining though as I know I'll (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Impact of New Colours -- 1 year later [Was: Deathstar]
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(...) My initial reaction was, oh well, its going to take a while to get enough kinds of parts in the new colors before I can plan MOCs using them. That turns out to be the case. I don't have enough parts yet. The downside, as far as buying sets, is (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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(...) There's a big difference between the *mould* tolerance (the 5 micron one) and the tolerance on the resulting ABS part. Running the process faster, releasing the ABS parts at a higher temperature, will make the produced parts more irregular (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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Was Jake talking about the tolerances of the actual mould whereas the Lego facts are refering to the bricks themselves. The moulds would need to be much more accurate than the bricks that came out of them. Dunno, just a thought (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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(...) This doesn't line up with what Jake said about plate height tolerance last June: (URL) He said it was 3.2mm +/-0.1mm, twenty times the tolerance quoted above. What publication was the 0.005mm tolerance taken from - can the relevant part of it (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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(...) Entirely possible, although the context of the rest of Larry's message is about Jorgen being put off by the Lugnet color discussion. As far as I recall that discussion has been entirely about the colors themselves, not the designs of the sets (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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(...) Hey Jake, my ears are burning :-). Steve (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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(...) I can see how frustrating it can get. My job involves a lot of that as well, I design web interfaces that have to be useful for absolute noobs ("what's this clicky thing on a string fer?") as well as power users... it's either "too hard" or (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) 1) The company. They'd lose money and waste ABS that they bought buy buying back the hordes of old gray. Also takes people's time (aka more money) to make the change happen. 2) Various fringe fans. "I invested a lot of money into the new light (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the discussion Jake. It's certainly true that you can't please all of the people all of the time. The danger of course is that it's easy to fall into the trap of dismissing contrary opinions, since "someone will always be (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX) !
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