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Subject: 
Very loose tolerances in the manufacture of LEGO bricks?
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lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:59:16 GMT
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CMASI@CMASI.CHEMantispam.TULANE.EDU
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When I went to

http://club.lego.com/eng/newstuff/default.asp

I noticed this statement

              Thousands of a mm - that's the tolerance of
              accuracy at the LEGO mould factories.

I don't think that you mean that the tolerances are on the order of meters (a
thousand mm is a m), do you?

Chris



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  Re: Very loose tolerances in the manufacture of LEGO bricks?
 
(...) 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)
  Re: Very loose tolerances in the manufacture of LEGO bricks?
 
(...) 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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