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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler writes:
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> > Thank you, Maggie and Aaron, for the information. I won that second
> > auction, so I'll give a review of the set when I receive it.
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> I received the item today, and it's, well, sort of weird. I've given it
> only a cursory inspection, but the plastic appears to be PVC, and the parts
> are packaged on a couple of sprues.
?? Really??
Not some sort of Styrene but Poly Vinyl Chloride, the stuff that those
offwhite household sewage pipes are made of? That's wild. I would have
expected Polystyrene (which is not as good as ABS, the "better" styrene) for
this usage. I didn't think PVC molded all that well but it's been a while
since Organic.
++Lar
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| (...) I received the item today, and it's, well, sort of weird. I've given it only a cursory inspection, but the plastic appears to be PVC, and the parts are packaged on a couple of sprues. The odd thing is that nearly all of the parts are direct (...) (23 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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