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Re: Influence of heat treatment on Lego® bricks + minifigs
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:42:54 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Have you ever thought abou the maximum washing temperature for dirty Lego®
> > bricks?
> > At what temperature will Lego® bricks get damaged - for e.g. in summer in • your
> > car or in your house's Lego® room under the roof?
> >
> > I did the ultimate test today. See the (partly surprising) results here in
> > this gallery (use the >> buttons to navigate from picture to picture).
> >
> > http://www.1000steine.de/myimages/album10
>
> This was heating in air.
Correct, Larry!
> Can you comment on the shine of the elements?
Above ca. 90°C (when they began to get weak) the elements looked more shiny.
Like some Lego elements do it nowadays. (for e.g. this one in yellow looks
always a little transparent + shiny http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6583 ).
> I have observed some
> discoloration (whitening or fading) when elements are overheated when in too
> hot water. Did you see any of that? The very melted elements seem quite
shiny.
Agree - the do in fact. But I have no idea how they would look like when put
into boiling water. Possibly the same?
I was astonished by the CA brick (the ones Lego produced before 1963). Those
get wharped even in handwarm water, but ths brick survived even 90°C better
than a modern one made by ABS.
Regards,
Ben
P.s.: I just added some english text into the gallery. I fear I made a mistake
by adding that directly to the picture name (the thumbnails look horrible with
that amount of text now) and for sure I have made lots of language mistakes,
because I had to hurry... I will try to fix that later....
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