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Hi,
This point crossdipped to .dear-lego (but, of course,
FUT-> here to .general).
In lugnet.general, Ed McGlynn writes:
> In lugnet.general, Mike Walsh writes:
> >
> > Wouldn't the presence of LEGO bricks with colors swirled together (I've
> > never seen one but they have been discussed before) verify that the same
> > mold is used for multiple colors?
> >
> > Mike
>
> *snip*
> Good point, Mike. When the color recipe is changed over to a new one, the
> ABS pellets in the hopper feeding the injection molding process will
> probably begin mixing with the existing pellets from the existing recipe.
> This should result in a stock of molded pieces with stepped shades of color
> that bridge the old and new recipes. For example, they start running yellow
> bricks and change over to red bricks later on. In between, they would
> produce something like an orange brick with some swirls, occlusions, etc.
>
> However, this depends on their process. Maybe they bleed the yellow ABS
> pellets out of the hoppers into some dump bins to be reclaimed later on into
> black bricks, and then fill the hoppers up with red pellets to start the new
> red recipe.
>
> Maybe they do produce swirled bricks, but they become part of their reclaim
> process and get ground up into pellets for use in black bricks later on...
>
> We may never know. I don't recall anything mentioned about this particular
> part of the process when I went through the LEGOLand factory tour at LLC.
Hmmmm. You know, (and this is why I've quoted over to .dear-lego)
a swirled mid-production-switch brick would be a very excellent
little Factory Tour Keepsake to give to people--each unique, each
its own "limited edition." Just a thought--though "off colours"
could be rather neat for mottled creations.
all best
LFB
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| (...) Wow, what a neat idea! Love it. However I thought their goal was to minimise the number of crosscolored parts during changeover so they may not have that many. How many people take that tour a year, do you think? I bet almost 100% of first (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) *snip* Good point, Mike. When the color recipe is changed over to a new one, the ABS pellets in the hopper feeding the injection molding process will probably begin mixing with the existing pellets from the existing recipe. This should result (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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