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"James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message
news:G15MBJ.GLu@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> > Hope I'm not stealing Steve Chuck's thunder, but I was browsing the • Brickshelf
> > Gallery and came upon this picture:
> >
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=14552
> >
> > It was taken on a LEGO factory tour. It's a picture of a retired mold • which
> > makes 8 2x3 bricks. There is a little caption plate which said it made
>
> I'd take a stab that that is actually the "LEGO Factory Tour" in Funtown • at
> LLC. Or at least, it looks an awful lot like it. :) There is also a mold
> machine pumping out 2x4 red bricks (at the time) and an assembly line • machine
> that made & took apart simple LEGO cars.
I was at LEGOLAND California a week and a half ago and the factory tour
equipment is still pumping out 2x4 red bricks, four or eight at a time.
They also had a painting machine putting the LEGO logo on 1x4x3 yellow thin
walls but it was unfortunately out of service. The rest of the machines
were operational, one assembling wheels on 2x4 axel bricks and one puting
items in boxes. I didn't notice if the molding machine was slowed down for
demonstration purposes but there was sign on the front of the machine
putting bricks in the plastic tray insert on the top of a small boxed set
that stated that the machine had been slowed down for demonstration
purposes.
>
> > 120,000,000 bricks (thus was used for 15 MILLION cycles). If that mold • cost 10
> > times as much as the mold Robert describes, it still comes out to less • than 1
> > cent per brick, and 10 times the cost of the mold Robert describes is • probably
> > an exageration).
> >
> > Actually, it looks like the mold may make more than 8 bricks, it looks • like it
> > has 4 layers, and thus makes 32 bricks.
>
> Making for a mere 3.75 million cycles... However, IIRC, the mold machine • on
> display there only dropped a single layer of bricks at a time - it's
> reasonable to assume that the mold machine on display resembles those in • the
> factory, which would make that an 8 brick mold.
>
> Someone who's been to LLC more recently than I may have more accurate • info.
> (Or maybe Ashley could shed some official light on our speculation... • Ashley?)
>
> James
It definitely only dropped one layer of bricks at a time.
Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com
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