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Re: Why Gary cannot go to Legoland.
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 13 May 2001 04:31:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tamyra Teed writes:
> I don't have any bricks close at hand right now, so I can't be totally
> sure of this, though I believe the 2nd number on the brick corresponds
> with it's postion in the mold. That's usually how molds are numbered,
> that way if they find a lot of 02 bricks having problems, they know
> where to look in the mold to see what's going on. Or which number to
> tell the computer not to fill.
Yep. That corresponds with my experience as well for multipart molds. All I
was saying is that one CAN have inserts that vary... I can't recall the
exact example at this point but I have seen molded plastic <something or
anothers> that had the date (at least down to the month) they were made cast
in. Sometimes as numbers and sometimes as rotary pointers on a circular face
with numbers around the edge.
But the net net is I don't think either of us think these extra numbers are
color numbers.
> Tamy
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> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > In lugnet.general, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
> > > "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Kevin Loch wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > P.S. the two digit _number_ on some elements is the "color" id.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So how do they handle 141 colors with 2 digits? Hex? Octal? ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Now wait a minute. Why would they *mold* the color number?
> > > Is a given mold only used for a single color?
> > > I think it makes more sense to use a mold for whatever
> > > color you need, instead of having to make a new mold for every color.
> >
> > I thought that's what they did too. I don't know for sure. I do know *this*,
> > though. It is possible to have a mold that has inserts to allow different
> > numbers to be molded into the parts, you select the right insert at the time
> > you deploy the mold to the injector machine... raises the cost of the mold,
> > though.
> >
> > ++Lar
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| (...) Take a look at older bricks that do not have the part number on them. Other numbers are present--normally 2 digits. I am willing to bet every last Lego brick I own [1] that the numbers molded onto bricks (not the part numbers) are the MOLD (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why Gary cannot go to Legoland.
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| I don't have any bricks close at hand right now, so I can't be totally sure of this, though I believe the 2nd number on the brick corresponds with it's postion in the mold. That's usually how molds are numbered, that way if they find a lot of 02 (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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