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Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:02:09 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes:
> 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.
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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 extra slope snuck past the box weight test?
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> -Shiri
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 had the same pieces in the same bags. They were kind of mixed and
matched. Makes you wonder...
-Chris
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-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 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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