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Subject: 
Re: modifying LEGO printing (the *horror*)
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Date: 
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:21:44 GMT
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Per Mike Stanley's experiments, soaking in brake fluid changes the ABS
into something not quite ABS and that's not a good thing. Mechanical
abrasion seems the only approach, all chemicals strong enough to remove
the printing are strong enough to mar the plastic.

This is all theoretical of course, I would never remove the printing.

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  modifying LEGO printing (the *horror*)
 
Ok. I'm about to ask for information I thought I'd never even want, let aloe want to act on. Up until this very morning the though would have been utterly abhorrent to me, but I want to make a specialised LEGO head for a minifig [1]. The question is (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)

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