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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 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Although an interesting question is why the 2x4 bricks and only the 2x4 bricks are yellowed. Also, I've got plenty of old bricks which are not yellowed, so there definitely are differing effects. One factor in the yellowed 2x4 bricks situation (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Duq, I am glad to hear that the 396 sets was one thing that you did leave that store in Germany with. I found 2 of those about 10/12 years ago in a German town called Mittwitz near the former East/West German border. Actually I bought one on 1989 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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