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Re: LEGO Direct Questions
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:37:04 GMT
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <SGORE@ihatespamSUPERONLINE.COM>
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R2 <r2eng@primenet.com> wrote in message news:FnsGBG.4xI@lugnet.com...
> > > However,
> > > as the plate is one-third the size, and probably 1/3 the
> > > actual ABS,
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> > I disagree. The top part, which is essentially the same in both the
> > brick and the plate (ignoring that the plate top has to be thicker for
> > appropriate sturdiness), contains most of the ABS, IMHO. I would say a
> > plate contains around 1/2 the ABS of a brick of equivalent size.
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> Just a FYI: I weighed a 2x4 plate at 18.6 grains, and a 2x4 brick at 35.4
> grains. The brick is about 2x the weight of the plate.
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> However, when calculating "cost" to produce a plate vs. brick, the 16.8
> grains of ABS is not even a "blip on the radar". The cost in building the
> molds for the parts is the largest cost. From experience, the molds would
> cost about the same to make.
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> From a past mold building job, I would guess the cost involved in brick • vs.
> plate is about equal.
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> Eric
You are half right half wrong. Molds are very very expensive to produce,
especially when they should satisfy 0.00X type of dimensional accuracy, but
if you are producing tens of thousands of a product (brick) even fractions
of savings of material would be sum up a very important amount at the end.
Selçuk
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| Selçuk wrote in message ... (...) Well, yes, but I am talking price (actually price differential between) of a single brick and plate. If taking into account the cost of ABS in large quantities, 16.8 gr.. difference in weight vs. total ABS used in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Just a FYI: I weighed a 2x4 plate at 18.6 grains, and a 2x4 brick at 35.4 grains. The brick is about 2x the weight of the plate. However, when calculating "cost" to produce a plate vs. brick, the 16.8 grains of ABS is not even a "blip on the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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