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Subject: 
Re: TLG investigation
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:48:03 GMT
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:05:16 GMT, "Jesse Long" <LongJR97@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36d93a07.86778262@lugnet.com>...
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:30:17 GMT, "Martin Legault"
<mlegault@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

Would be 100 minimun each type of piece. Would you like to count 83 1x2 • black,
253 1x4 red, 1252 1x4 white etc...

Just like counting out coins: Just weigh 'em.


Something tells me trying to tell the difference between pieces that small
and light would really suck.

Isn't that how QA works in the LEGO factories?  Each baggie of parts is
weighed as a check that it contains the right pieces (because the
correct total weight is known).

If weighing small, heterogeneous bags works, weighing large, homogeneous
quantities has got to be simpler.

Steve



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  Re: TLG investigation
 
(...) And if they only sold in set increments, say a 500 brick minimum order with any given brick obtainable in increments of 50 only, they could have the proper size quantities easily preweighed and handy. I'd also love to see all the old minifig (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: TLG investigation
 
Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36d93a07.86778262@l...et.com>... (...) black, (...) Something tells me trying to tell the difference between pieces that small and light would really suck. HTH? Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)

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