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In lugnet.lego.direct, Geoffrey Hyde writes:
> Ian Sinclair <sinclair@cadvision.com> wrote:
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> > TLC wants to avoid changing molds as long as possible. Every time
> > that's done the injection machine must be purged, cleaned and the
> > molds changed. That is a lot of down time.
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> Maybe that is the case, but I've seen one report that the facilities they
> use are fed from a set of huge silos containing raw ABS materials in
> different colors for all the common elements they produce.
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> This suggests to me that perhaps their injection molding machines would be
> capable of automatically handling multiple colors one after the other.
I would guess that you are correct. I, and other people (IIRC), have gotten
parts with swirls of other colors in them, which leads me to believe that they
don't hand clean them between runs. Mine is a pretty nifty brick, actually,
and I'd love to have more. It is a gray 2x8 with dark gray swirls in it. :)
Jeff
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| Ian Sinclair <sinclair@cadvision.com> wrote in message news:39643b6f.527169...ion.com... (...) Maybe that is the case, but I've seen one report that the facilities they use are fed from a set of huge silos containing raw ABS materials in different (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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