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Re: Has anyone ever been missing a piece?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:59:12 GMT
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Craig Livingston wrote:
> Anyway, we all know that there are many small extra pieces in today's sets. Is
> this to ensure that the smaller pieces don't get lost? Also, is there a pattern
> to the placement of small parts. It seemed to me that all visors were doubled
> and all 1x1 round plates had 1 extra in each of the sets colors. However, in my
> more recent purchases only the 1x1 round plates pattern has stayed true. Any
> other patterns noticed?
Actual reason is probably that the 1x1 round plates (there are a few
other parts which sometimes come with an extra) are very close to the
tolerance of their scales, so they put an extra one in, and set the
limit to account for that extra piece (but not totally). Then if the
scale happens to read a little high, such that the machine would not
reject the package, but a piece actually was missing, you still get
everything you need. If the bag was missing two pieces, it would
essentially be guaranteed to be rejected as underweight.
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Frank Filz
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| I know this is kinda late in the thread for adding comments, but I have had two experiences with missing pieces lately: 1 - An Outback airstrip I bought from KB was missing a 1x2 corrugated gray brick that I must of search an hour for (thinking I (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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