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Re: Crappy Plates!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:00:33 GMT
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:FM2GBt.3n@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Tamyra Teed writes:
> > > I've also noticed alot of plates from the McD's set seem to have a lot
> > > of signs of stress marks, I wonder if they didn't get a bad batch of ABS
> > > in. It wasn't prevalent on all of the plates. Which might account for
> > > what you are seeing below, maybe it's too stiff and it won't break off
> > > clean from the mold.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else notice this on the plates in their sets?
> > 
> > Not that so much as more *warped* plates than I recall being normal in the • McD
> > sets. Perhaps that is due to bad handling by McD (or me) rather than bad • QA,
> > though...
> 
>   At the two McD's I checked out, the promo sets were kept in a bid • abutting
> the heated food-transfer chute.


Plus they stick them in a bag with hot fries and a burger.  Fries right out
of the vat are probably hot enough to warp Lego.

I got in the habit of telling them to put the Lego in one bag and the food in
the other bags.

-John Van



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(...) But so tasty! Since I was mainly interested in the sets, I just bought a burger. Apparently the the greater fry-heat has a more sharply detrimental effect on ABS, because I haven't noticed much warping. Is the effect especially prevalent in (...) (27 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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(...) At the two McD's I checked out, the promo sets were kept in a bid abutting the heated food-transfer chute. Dave! (27 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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