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| (...) Aye, there's a couple times I've opened a set and found faulty or missing parts. One time, a factory fault was my gain. I bought a Snowspeeder, and somehow during manufacturing, two 1x3 orange slopes got stuck together. Not glue; melted (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) That's interesting! I was under the impression that TLC uses box weight to "eliminate" factory errors; thus sometimes (rarely, but still) people would get a wrong-colored piece, but not very often a different piece altogether. I wonder how an (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) No clue. This could also be why we get "extras" with certain sets. Along these same lines, I wonder exactly how they divvy up pieces for each set, and decide what goes in what bag. For example, I have 4 Catapult Crushers, and no two of them (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| "Xcalabur" <Xcalabur@rocketmail.com> wrote in message news:Fts8Jv.428@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) Not (...) I remember reading about this here a while back. Someone received a magic marker cap and another person had an incomplete Rock Raider (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Actually it was Joe Davenport that got both (and a misprinted door in Anikin's Podracer) Alan (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) would (...) Maybe it was a different production run and they had changed the piece/bag plan. As for the weighing process, anything mechanical can chuck a 'wobbly',when in need of service or experiencing 'problems'. The printing machines at (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I don't know, but I had an extra grey metal detector piece sneak past the box test before. That is the only real time I've had an error in a set. Greg Majewski (URL) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The weight control is somewhat of a statistical thing. Any time you take a measurement of something, given a sufficiently precise (as in digits of precision as opposed to accuracy) measurement device, you will get different measurements each (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yes - many of the 4291 red tubs had malformed red lattice fences in: there was a gap in the lattice at the same point on every malformed one that I got, so it was probably a mould problem. I had 4 or 5 out of 13 tubs with this problem, and I (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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