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    Re: Bulk Ordering Allowed in USA! —Asher Kobin
   Why don't we just order our own "LUGNET" promotional set? I wonder what the minimum is for that sort of thing... :) -- Asher (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Bulk Ordering Allowed in USA! —Mike Poindexter
     (...) I actually already tried that. They do not allow the company to design the set, which really makes it difficult to tell them to put in train windows, paradisa canopies, dark gray and orange bricks, pirate and ice babes or whatever other good (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Bulk Ordering Allowed in USA! —James Powell
     Snip. (...) It really isn't all that hard to -make- a mold that will work. We need someone with access to a EDM machine (I don't have access to one) and a CAD file with the dimensions of the object you want to copy. Getting the molding done is also (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Bulk Ordering Allowed in USA! —Phillip Ogden
     Not to be argumentative but, I think it is a little more difficult than you are stating. I think someone had already mentioned, the plastic is quite warm, (hot even) when it comes out of the mold. Thermal expansion may (I'm no engineer) be a factor (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Bulk Ordering Allowed in USA! —Mike Poindexter
     (...) I would say pretty trivial. All one would have to do is carry a high end digital caliper with them next time they go to Legoland Carlsbad. There is an old mold on display. From the readings on that mold, you should be able to arrive at a mold (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Bulk Ordering Allowed in USA! —Ray Sanders
   I can see the ads on eBay already "Not available thru S@H !" :) (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
 

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