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Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 29 Apr 2000 16:57:42 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Chris Maddison writes:
> 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 plastic. So, there was one extra slope. This was easily
> remedied with an Xacto knife to seperate the pieces.
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 extra slope snuck past the box weight test?
-Shiri
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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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) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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