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Re: Damaged MINT Lego?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 3 May 2000 01:04:57 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.general, Selçuk Göre writes:
> > Scott-A wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Hmm. I have never noticed this - is it obvious? Perhaps it only effects
> > > US/North American production?
> >
> > No, not a local problem of US. Town tyres especially, are always somehow
> > oily.
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> I've found it most noticeable on the FreeStyle tires -- especially the bigger
> ones, but also a big problem with even the small Town tires. For at least the
> last 2 years we've had to seal every lot of tires we sell separately into a
> separate bag to seal the oil, and wash our hands immediately after handling
> them so the oil doesn't get onto the other parts. It's too bad LEGO ships the
> tires in bags with other parts.
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> BTW, I've only noticed the tire oil on non-Technic tires. The huge ones don't
> seem ever to have this oil. Weird.
>
> --Todd
I've only ever noticed it on the Adventurer's tires. I was very surprised
when I opened up my first Adventurer's set. I couldnt' figure out what was
all over my fingers.
-Jonathan
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