 | | LEGO Facts and Figures (A repost from Pause archive, by Jeff Crites, 1995)
|
|
Return-Path: <crites@staff.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 18:16:53 -0500 From: "Jeffrey T. Crites" <crites@staff.cc.purdue.edu> from LEGO's own publications: LEGO `FACTS AND FIGURES' ===...=== Here's some great information from `LEGO Facts & (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Facts and Figures (A repost from Pause archive, by Jeff Crites, 1995)
|
|
(...) [big snip] I forgot to mention that it's here also: (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.faq)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Facts and Figures (A repost from Pause archive, by Jeff Crites, 1995)
|
|
"Suz" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:ICFEqA.1yuy@lugnet.com... (...) One BIG snip. (...) -- (...) -- (...) may (...) 75 (...) __<>__ (...) (______) (...) | (...) | (...) | (...) | (...) | (...) | (...) | (...) |____| (...) __) (...) Some (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Facts and Figures - tolerance on part sizes
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Facts and Figures - tolerance on part sizes
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Facts and Figures - tolerance on part sizes
|
|
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)
|
