 | | Re: "Blue" pieces in new Alpha Team set #4742
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(...) It's medium blue. I've checked on peeron (20 years ago, 10-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | "Blue" pieces in new Alpha Team set #4742
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I recently saw the new Alpha Team Chill Speeder set #4742 [LEGOSet 4742] I looked up the set on Peeron, and it said that the blue pieces are the Medium Blue shade. The pictures on the box really look like the Dusty Blue shade (called "Sand" Blue by (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.color, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Quality issue - update
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(...) You are correct; I should have worded that a little better. ;) Scott A (who thinks this would make a good high school sats project) (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Agreed, with a large enough sample size. I hardly think 10 bricks (or even 40) would be enough to cancel out all such errors. Besides, if my stacks reduced the error, doesn't that mean the older bricks are actually likely to have worse (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Have you accounted for common mode error? Many bricks are produced by the same mold. If 12 2x4s are produced per machine cycle, then 1 in 12 will be from the same part of the mold. The randomness of the distribution depends how many machines (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Quality issue - update
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(...) If exact brick size variation tends towards(1) a normal distribution there will be equal numbers of oversized and undersized bricks. Measuring the length of a “stack” of bricks will basically cancel out any error. Scott A (1) I say “tends (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) OK so I just went to my box of childhood LEGO (circa 1970-80) to check this out. Discounting the CA bricks which have known deterioration problems, I put together 4 stacks of 10 ABS bricks, 2 red and 2 white. I made sure I picked out the "best (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hmm. In the realm of tangential anecdotal evidence, I bought the Mini-Robots (4097) set. I noticed that many of the 1x1 elements coming with the set, such as cylinders, 1x1 bricks with technic holes, headlight bricks, etc seemed to be having (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, lugnet.general)
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(...) For storage I stack my 2x3 plates with 3 studs along one edge overlapping. There is a 3mm difference in height between two stacks of 38 2x3 plates. This is within the tolerance you quoted of 3.2mm +/-0.1mm, since 3mm/38 = 0.0789mm per plate. I (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jul-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: How many of you will not be keeping the new colors?
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(...) I will be buying very few new sets for parts, and setting aside the new colors for sale or trade. So far I have bought the (URL) just to see the new colors, and a couple of copies of (URL) 4346> for the 1x1 brick with 2 side studs pieces. I (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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