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Re: Can you remove the glue from lego store displays?
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Date: 
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,

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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Hi there, 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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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