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Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 30 Apr 2000 01:19:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> I made myself a cup tea of tea at lunch time and set aside an hour to open
> and build my 6557 "Treasure Hunters". I broke the seals and opened the box.
> Immediately, I noticed that one of the inverted brown arches was damaged
> (the 1*1 brown plate size end was bent up to ~45 degrees). Obviously this
> must have been some sort of manufacturing fault.
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> Has anyone else ever had damaged Lego in sets?
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> Scott A
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> The 6557
> http://nt1.pncl.co.uk/huw/view.asp?Set=6557-1&f=1&r=1
I've gotten several toothed half bushings that were squashed beyond
recognition, obviously a manufacturing mistake.
Another type of 'mint' damage is scratching. I opened a new 1789 Star Hawk II
with many of the pieces badly scratched, as if from extremely rough handling.
The box however had absolutely no damage. I remember that the pieces in that
particular box were very "tight", with even more 'snap' than the classic 70's
bricks (when new). Maybe whatever property that gives the bricks more
'snap' also makes them easier to scratch. That may explain the noticably
reduced snap of current production bricks.
Yet another type of 'damage' is greasy rubber stains. Of course that probably
only bothers me because of my no-grease-on-bricks OCD.
Why do the tires need to be dripping with grease anyway? They diddn't
used to and those old tires still work just fine.
KL
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| Kevin, (...) I'm glad you posted this--I thought I was the only one who wibbled at overly greasy bricks (or got them on a regular basis). I don't know what it was, but I got many Adventurers sets like this--a really bizarre thing. It may be more (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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| The greasyness of new bricks is something that is a bit annoying to me. My skin seems to be sensitive to the grease, and after sorting a large quantity of LEGO elements, my hands always feel itchy. (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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| (...) I have found this very annoying of late. The grease can be quite noticable and is hard to remove, and a few small tires can "contaminate" a large polybag full of parts. In reponse to the original aim of the thread, I've found one 1x2 brick (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| I made myself a cup tea of tea at lunch time and set aside an hour to open and build my 6557 "Treasure Hunters". I broke the seals and opened the box. Immediately, I noticed that one of the inverted brown arches was damaged (the 1*1 brown plate size (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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