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Re: When did "seeding" begin?
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 1 Oct 2000 11:18:34 GMT
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> We may not like it but I imagine from the TLC perspective there is a very good
> reason for it. I would speculate it has something to do with evening out the
> quantity of resin (of various colors) consumed from year to year so that there
> aren't big spikes in storage and spikes in price to TLC for the raw materials.
I think it might be more to do with the counting machines, than the
molding/colour use. It's easier to pick up a mistake of 2 blue/4 black than 6
black of a piece in the same bag, as well, I know there are physical limits as
to how many of each piece a machine can pack into a single polybag.
James
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| (...) Most of the error checking was done by weight, and, without any inside knowledge, I would presume that the baggies and sets are still checked by weight. The PVC trays were checked by a video camera, which was kinda cool. If you left out a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) came (...) than (...) to (...) as (...) sets (...) I'm not sure it's a recent thing, actually. Model team sets have had bricks buried in the middle of models that were not the expected color... both 5561 and 5571 have blue bricks buried in (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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