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Re: Long Term Packaging
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:49:01 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz wrote:
Dan Simonson wrote:
Is there anything better that I can do? Anything bad that typically
happens over long-term storage? I've heard of white bricks
yellowing... the container will be opaque, and having seen the nice
sun tans some of my white bricks have recieved, that should help
lower risks of damage.

Yellowing may not just be due to sun. A few years back, I opened some sealed
sets that were from the 70s. They had yellowed blue bricks (but not all the
blue bricks), so I assume there are other causes of yellowing than just UV
damage (and the boxes weren't faded, so it wasn't like they were sitting in
the window, and allowing some tiny amount of UV to get through - though that
could still be what was going on, even if there wasn't enough exposure to
fade the boxes).

Blue bricks? Interesting.


That said, I have not noticed significant yellowing of my sorted brick, so
keeping it out of the sun should be all you really need to protect it for 4
years.

Awesome. Thanks!


Frank

- Dan



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  Re: Long Term Packaging
 
(...) Yes, blue definitely also yellows. Several years ago I bought out a kids collection. I found a significant number of yellowed blue bricks. I don't think I've ever seen discolored red, green, yellow, black, or dark grey bricks (though looking (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Long Term Packaging
 
(...) Yellowing may not just be due to sun. A few years back, I opened some sealed sets that were from the 70s. They had yellowed blue bricks (but not all the blue bricks), so I assume there are other causes of yellowing than just UV damage (and the (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.general)

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