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(...) I agree that the mould tolerances would be higher than the part. I was assuming the referenced article was referring to the parts, though. (I don't want to sign up for a new Web Account to read it, until I've heard back from their site admin). (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Nah, that doesn't make sense. What WOULD make sense is ONE corner wall and 2-4 straight walls. Otherwise, you'd only be building skinny towers over time, to use up all the excess corners. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Except in rare cases, the tool has to be a tighter tolerance than the product. I have no trouble whatsoever imagining (read that as speculating please!) that the tolerances on the molds are at .001 mm and that due to non uniform cooling, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I can't get into the Web Club to read this (because my userid has been nuked for some reason) so I don't know the context. But as Jake McKee has already posted, this would be thousandths of a millimetre (1/1000 or 0.001 mm). For you non-metric (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Chris, That is thousandths of a millimeter, versus 1000 millimeters. Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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