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Re: Lego Vs. Superglue . . . Help me get unstuck, please!!!
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Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:26:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Josh Breese wrote:
> Hello all,
> So, I bought some brick from a woman in San Diego. Of the sets she sent me, two
> were glued together with superglue! It appears, from the few pieces that have
> fallen off, that the kid only glued the base of one brick onto the top of the
> other, meaning he didn't put glue on the studs themselves (thank god).
>
> But, I decided to do a little experiment . . . I did a worse case senario and
> superglued the heck out of two standard 2x4 red bricks (I got billions). I
> glued the bases and the studs, but staggered them by two studs. Then, I put the
> glued bricks in an acetone bath for a few minutes.
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> The results were very sad. The bricks did NOT come undone. They actually
> MELTED! Not completely, but the colors ran into each other, the plastic had
> softened.
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> Not good.
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> Sooooooo. Anyone have any ideas for how I can take these sets apart? I don't
> really have any experience with superglue because, well, I play with Lego, which
> doesn't need any glue.
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated . . .
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> Oh, and BTW, they were sets 6057 and 6074, Sea Serpent and Wolf Pack Tower.
> Complete, but glued :(
I'm not a chemist, nor am I the authority on any subject, but in my limited life
experience with super glue and models -
I'm afraid you're out of luck. One of the things that makes superglue work so
well at bonding two things together is that it doesn't always just stick the two
items together, but in the case of plastic especially, chemically bonds them
together. That is to say, it melts them together so they become one piece
again.
I've had bad experience with super glue and models before. I had a model
Spitfire I was trying to put together as a kid, and I couldn't get one of the
landing gear to sit correctly. So I kept moving it and adding glue, and pretty
soon the landing gear was a puddle of plastic.
I also tried removing enamel paint from LEGO that I had painted on when I was
very young, and like you, the paint thinner (which is nothing more than acetone)
ate my piece of breast plate armor.
Perhaps someone else has an idea, but from what I know you're pretty much out of
luck in trying to save your bricks unscathed.
--Anthony
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