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Subject: 
Re: 7171 tolerance (was: Not at all a pact with the devil... (values of TLC))
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Date: 
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:59:00 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
In lugnet.lego.direct, Ross Crawford writes:

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....

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


I just keep looking at your IVAR shelves wondering when my Ikea is going to
get in a shipment of corner units.

junior



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  Re: 7171 tolerance (was: Not at all a pact with the devil... (values of TLC))
 
William Brumbach wrote in message ... (...) IVAR rules! Larry P and I both use it too (I've been buying it for 20 years, since it was called UFFE). Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (...) (24 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))
 
(...) IKEA does mail order. Or did. Sort of The problem is that it's sort of a do it yourself process. We got our first Ivar this way, from the Philadelphia store, 7 years ago now. We did it by calling and asking if we could order, there was no (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)

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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

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