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(...) You can't simply "mix" ABS like that. The colors will never blend 100% and you'll get swirling patterns such as McDonalds "Flurry" icecreams :) -- Jan-Albert van Ree (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Yes you can. It's done all the time. Any color of ABS can be easily recycled into black, because the carbon used to color it will overpower any other dyes. Other colors are entirely dependant upon what you want to recycle them into. You can't (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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What colors do you grind up and mix to get Purple Dave? :D "Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:Hx9uMx.15LG@lugnet.com... (...) recycled (...) dyes. (...) into. (...) and/or (...) exactly (...) exactly (...) Once (...) (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) I'm actually quite partial to the standard LEGO purple, though I've noticed that the Throwbot limbs aren't the same shade as all of the other pieces, and they've used three slightly different shades of purple rubber (two shades for purple (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Wow.... I've been an intern for 4 months at a Dutch injection moulding company but I never knew it was possible, apart from the black (as has been done for years with car bumpers and such) But unless you do this in HUGE quantities, how can you (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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(...) That's part of the problem. You do get much greater accuracy as you increase the size of the batch. It's also probably a lot easier to do with sheet extrusion than with injection molding, where you have a constant flow of a large amount of (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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