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Re: 7171 tolerance (was: Not at all a pact with the devil... (values of TLC))
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lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general
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Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:29:19 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Ross Crawford writes:
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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.
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> 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....
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. :-(
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2880
And these are just a few out of thousands of poor quality bricks I bought
during the last year....
Regards,
Ben
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