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Re: LEGO Quality
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:20:43 GMT
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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 molecules. The board and cellophane of the box are
almost certainly exgassing some nasties. It would not come as a surprise to
me if even the dimensions of the older bricks have changed.
Any professional curators out there who have to try to preserve plastic? It
can't be easy (feasible?).
If other blue pieces are not yellowing, it's certainly possible that
particular run of bricks - or that production line or that week's dye batch
or pick a variable - was different (arguably inferior) to the other
run/line/batch.
(Apologies if this has been hashed out to death somewhere in the archives.)
In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> An experience yesterday, and all the hubub recently about the declining
> quality of LEGO bricks got me thinking a bit about quality...
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> 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).
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> This is interesting to me since I have plenty of bricks at least that
> old from used sets, and they aren't similarly stiff.
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> 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).
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> I wonder if the the packaging (box or plastic bags) has any detrimental
> effects.
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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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