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Re: Can you remove the glue from lego store displays?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:19:38 GMT
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Short answer is no.
The glue used in the american model shop (it sometimes differs from model shop
to model shop) is a mixture of MEK and ABS. It is literally liquid brick.
When we would need to make repairs, we would do so with a chisel, then try to
make the cut clean enough that we could cheat some bricks back in.
-john
http://www.skypoint.com/~jkelly69/Modelpic.htm
In lugnet.general, Elam Birnbaum writes:
> Hi there,
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> I figure that there could be someone out there who managed to unglue a large
> lego display model into it constituent pieces. Can it be done without
> destroying
> some or many of the lego pieces? Is it worth it even if it can be done? I am
> asking because I could get access to a store display, but as a builder, I am
> much more interested in the lego pieces themselves. I don't mind losing those
> pieces which were probably drilled through to solidify the model, but if I
> would
> lose most of the pieces or the procedure is too strenuous, I'd probably pass • on
> purchasing the model.
>
> I'd appreciate if any answers be e-mailed to me (at etb@pixgen.com) as well as
> posted here as I do not regularly check Lugnet. Thanks in advance!
>
> Elam Birnbaum
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