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Subject:	Re: 7171 tolerance (was: Not at all a pact with the devil... (values of TLC))
Newsgroups:	lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:15:21 GMT
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Reinhard "Ben" Beneke <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message news:G7MAJA.1Lt@lugnet.com... > While Lego bricks used to have a tolerance of less than a hundreds of a > millimeter, today the bricks look sometimes like this (with a 0,6 mm gap > between two bricks from 7171!): > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=28411 > This quality standard of bricks is not acceptable in my eyes. I just checked this out, cos I hadnt seen a 7171 before. It's difficult to tell conclusively from the image, but it looks to me like the studs still line up fairly closely. So maybe theres a reason why they reduced the width of this part? I can't think of one, but that doesn't mean there isn't one.... ROSCO

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		Re: 7171 tolerance (was: Not at all a pact with the devil... (values of TLC))
(...) This bracket part is in many sets. I think what occurs is this: The 1x2 plate on top is quite precisely a 1x2 plate. If you stack 1x2 plates on top of the example given, you will see how close they fit the bracket However, the surface is not (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

		Re: 7171 tolerance (was: Not at all a pact with the devil... (values of TLC))
(...) This bracket part is in many sets. I think what occurs is this: The 1x2 plate on top is quite precisely a 1x2 plate. If you stack 1x2 plates on top of the example given, you will see how close they fit the bracket However, the surface is not (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

		Re: 7171 tolerance (was: Not at all a pact with the devil... (values of TLC))
(...) If this was the only bended or wrong sized Lego® brick, I could live with that, but take a look at the complete folder of this gallery: none of these bricks has same quality as they have had in the past. :-( (URL) these are just a few out of (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

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		Re: Not at all a pact with the devil... (values of TLC)
(...) sorry to jump into this thread a week later. I'm basically in lugnet.trains and at www.1000steine.de/forum/ [snip] (...) This point has been discussed in the German community alot. I think most Germans are of the opinion that TLC really has a (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

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