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LEGO Quality
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:48:13 GMT
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An experience yesterday, and all the hubub recently about the declining
quality of LEGO bricks got me thinking a bit about quality...
Yesterday I opened an older MISB set (3629 to be specific). It was
almost impossible to build because the bricks were so "stiff", they
wouldn't sit properly. I've also had an experience with a MISB 70's set
(664).
This is interesting to me since I have plenty of bricks at least that
old from used sets, and they aren't similarly stiff.
In addition to this, the blue 2x4 bricks in 664 were yellowed (so much
for sunlight being the cause or at least the only cause of brick
yellowing, at least of blue bricks).
I wonder if the the packaging (box or plastic bags) has any detrimental
effects.
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Frank Filz
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Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: LEGO Quality
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| IANAOrganicChemist but: Is it reasonable, in general, to expect plastic to last - utterly unchanged even cosmetically - for decades? ABS is stable but it isn't immune to radiation and oxidation (or other chemical attack) any more than other organic (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: LEGO Quality
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| Frank Filz wrote: <snip> (...) It's doubtful the packaging had any effect at all on the yellowing. All ABS LEGO bricks, white or otherwise colored, should yellow eventually, simply because of the heat-molding process used to make them. That initial (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: LEGO Quality
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| Frank Filz wrote in message <3A9FA49D.2781@minds...ng.com>... (...) It could depend on where the set had been stored. I found a MISB 6411 that had been sitting in a shop window for about 6 years. The box was very faded, so I haggled and eventually (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: LEGO Quality
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| Interesting..... Only yesterday I opened a 25 years old 396 and had the same thing: bricks were incredibly stiff. There were no blue 2x4's, but lots of other blue, and no sign of yellowing. Since it's such an old set, there were no polybags.... Duq (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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