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Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:12:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Chris Maddison writes:
> 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.
> >
> > 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 had the same pieces in the same bags. They were kind of mixed and
> matched. Makes you wonder...
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 work are
always finding new ways of astounding us with new problems.
As for myself, I have received a wrong coloured plate once, and a damaged
element once, but then I rarely build the set model. (mostly a MOCman)
pete.w
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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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