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Customizing Subgroup (was Re: Some Lego cleaning experiments)
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:58:46 GMT
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A 1/4 part bleach to 3/4 parts water -- or some other milder conconction of
bleach to water -- used on white, grey, or clear bricks and left to soak for 1-
2 weeks will absolutely work. I have done it, I know it for a fact that it
works. The result is old, yet very clean, bricks. I don't know what happens
to other colors. Discoloration on other colors is not as obvious, I guess.
Actual dirt may be cleaned off with a good soak in "simple green" mixed with
water, and then brushed off with a soft toothbrush if need be, or merely
rinsed off after some marginal scrubbing with a sponge -- and not the side
with the scrub pad, just the plain old sponge part. Most people don't realize
that the scrubbing pad side of a sponge is abrasive enough to polish metal --
and indeed it is used for this purpose in jewelry making and sculpture.
Brasso is the stuff for nicks, scratches and removing printing, not whitening.
I am beginning to think that this question, and other modification questions,
come up so frequently that there REALLY ought to be a FAQ posted here on
Lugnet somewhere. And there really should be a customizing subgroup too.
Some of these methods of cleaning and so forth might be considered radical
enough as to constitute a modification of the element in question.
-- Richard
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| A few weeks ago a family member sent me a big box of old legos that I had played with as a kid (we're talking 26 yr old lego - boy guess that dates me doesn't it). I was so excited to see those blue rails, red lattice fences and neat old windows. I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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