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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:43:52 GMT
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Robert Munafo (munafo@gcctechNO.SPAMcom) wrote:
: [1] I am not counting the carving of the tiny letters "LEGO" on the studs. Your
: hypothetical model railroaders wouldn't bother with such detail, and it
: probably doesn't affect LEGO's cost anyway since they probably have specialized
: milling machines dedicated just to this purpose.
We also contract with people who make molds. To carve the "LEGO"
letters in, you'd probably use plunge EDM, where you make a carbon
electrode positive of hte numbers, and burn the negative into each stud.
That tool steel they use is pretty hard stuff.
-Bill
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| (...) I worked for a company that had to have a custom mold (actually several molds) to manufacture plastic parts for the product's enclosure (the plastic "shell" that most electronic products have). The mold pieces were made for us by the same mold (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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