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Subject: 
What Process are Lego Bricks Manufactured With?
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Date: 
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:42:15 GMT
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I was sitting in front of the computer the other day and just staring at a
2x4 lego brick.  How the heck do they make these things?  They go against
everything I've ever learned about injection molding; no draft angle, no
radius in the corners, etc etc etc.

Anybody know what process lego uses to acheive such great results?



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  Re: What Process are Lego Bricks Manufactured With?
 
You think that is bad, I have been practically exploding my brain trying to work out how the heck they injection mold the chains. Each link is a single piece, so all the links must be molded in place. I can't imagine that they mold the entire thing (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
  Re: What Process are Lego Bricks Manufactured With?
 
This is probably of no help... but I shot a few pix of a "retired" 2x3 mold at Legoland CA this past summer... They are a bit blurry, but maybe I'll shoot a few more if I can make it out to BricksWest next month! Here are the links: (URL) that helps (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)

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