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Re: How to tell Cellulose Acetate from ABS
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:04:16 GMT
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The online newsgroups are quiet today ..... the "Dog Days" must be here. (For
those non-US folks we in the USA call late July and all of August the "Dog Days of
Summer" because throughout most of the USA it is HOT (32-38 degree Celcius) and
people just don't feel like doing a lot - many go on vacation (holiday)). So I
was in my cool basement (cellar, keller) looking thru my Lego last night......
I have been digging thru my plate bins (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4) last night, and I
dug out a lot of the Cellulose Acetate plates that I have. I had a lot more than
I thought I did. There is another way to differentiate mint (or near mint)
Cellulose Acetate pieces from ABS pieces of the same condition. That is the
mirror-like surface. Cellulose Acetate pieces have a hihly reflective mirrorlike
surface. ABS, on the otherhand, has more of a matt (dull) finish to it.
But one of the easiest way to spot Cellulose Acetate is still warping. If it is
warped, its more than likely Cellulose Acetate.
Gary Istok
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 | | Re: How to tell Cellulose Acetate from ABS
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| Hi Gary and others who like old Lego, Its definitely the dog days of summer here in Saint Louis. I was doing the same, sorting, and finding a lot more CA pieces than I realized I had. I found a few of these white 4x8 plates with one round corner. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How to tell Cellulose Acetate from ABS
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| I am dismantling and rebuilding my large Blue Castle (on my website) one wing and tower at a time (4 matching wings with 4 towers) just to find all of the blue Cellulose Acetate bricks which belong to a German wooden box set (#712) from 1962 (which (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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