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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:21 GMT
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> Hope I'm not stealing Steve Chuck's thunder, but I was browsing the • Brickshelf
> Gallery and came upon this picture:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=14552
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> It was taken on a LEGO factory tour. It's a picture of a retired mold • which
> makes 8 2x3 bricks. There is a little caption plate which said it made
> 120,000,000 bricks (thus was used for 15 MILLION cycles). If that mold • cost 10
> times as much as the mold Robert describes, it still comes out to less • than 1
> cent per brick, and 10 times the cost of the mold Robert describes is • probably
> an exageration).
The mold in the picture has a number of removable parts that make up the 8
chambers for the 2x3 bricks. These have to have been replaced a number of
times to have made that many parts. And to maintain it to the tight
tolerances required to make LEGO(R) bricks lock with the exacting fit we've
all come to expect may indeed cost ten times what it would cost to machine
the relatively simple mold Steve describes :
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| (...) Somehow I doubt it. If it actually cost a penny a brick for the MOLD, there is no way that the cost per part for a set would be 10-20 cents, and certainly no way that you could sell tubs for close to a penny a part. What's possible is that the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The (...) and (...) Hope I'm not stealing Steve Chuck's thunder, but I was browsing the Brickshelf Gallery and came upon this picture: (URL) was taken on a LEGO factory tour. It's a picture of a retired mold which makes 8 2x3 bricks. There is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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