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Re: Creator Buckets - Purple & Orange
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:26:33 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Arne Lykke Nielsen writes:
> I just noticed, that the partsref 3004 1x2 bricks was in 2 different
> versions in this box: all blue and yellow 1x2's was with a hollow inner pin,
> while all other colors had the usual solid pin. Are this TLC trying to save
> some plastic? A few micrograms per brick? There is no structural reason, as
> far as I can see.
A few micrograms per brick adds up, so that would be my guess. The solid pin
examples are probably molds that are being worked to their end of life (the
savings is not enough to justify ditching a perfectly good mold, I suspect,
but enough to change molds when they are replaced...)
I suspect QC has nothing to do with it.
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 | | Re: Creator Buckets - Purple & Orange
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| (...) I'm in agreement there. I'd bet the new mold is being used for the new parts. But I've had 1xn bricks in both "styles" appear in the same set before; I had merely assumed that they were depleting old stock that was already molded. But maybe it (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Creator Buckets - Purple & Orange
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| (...) I just noticed, that the partsref 3004 1x2 bricks was in 2 different versions in this box: all blue and yellow 1x2's was with a hollow inner pin, while all other colors had the usual solid pin. Are this TLC trying to save some plastic? A few (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.general)
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