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Re: wishing upon a star
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Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:31:48 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:20:13 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
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> > Frank Filz wrote:
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> > > Taking that to the ultimate suggests even the TLG part number should not
> > > be the key (which of course is already a known issue if you want to
> > > account for color and/or printing).
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> > Precisely. It's not guaranteed to be unique and it has business meaning.
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> It's known to be not unique, there's a many-to-many relationship between
> TLG numbers and unique mold-forms.
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> That is, the same number has been used for different parts (at least,
> different versions of parts), and different numbers have been used for the
> same part.
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> Steve
For anyone that might not know this, Mold numbers are not unique. A
mold is setup for all the parts and it makes more than 1 piece at a
time. If you take the 2x4 brick mold, it could possibly do 8 bricks at a
time which means each brick in the mold has a number 1-8. This is for
quality control measures, if they continually find a bad brick in each
injection they can check the number on the brick and they'll know if the
mold needs some work, or if they should program the machine to not fill
that section.. (if this isn't clear it's because I've only been up 5
mins and haven't even cracked my first dew yet)
Hope this clears anything up for people who don't know what they are :)
--
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| (...) It sounds like you're talking about the mold quality control numbers. On most LEGO parts that a large enough concealed surface, you find three numbers -- two vary from part to part for the reasons you describe. These are usually one or two (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| (...) It's known to be not unique, there's a many-to-many relationship between TLG numbers and unique mold-forms. That is, the same number has been used for different parts (at least, different versions of parts), and different numbers have been (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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