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i believe it is the acid in your skin that does alot of the yellowing.
"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in news:GGDF8A.2xL@lugnet.com:
> In lugnet.trains, Harvey Henkelman writes:
> > This may be CDS (Compartment Dork Syndrome) but here goes...
> >
> > My family has just returned from up north and they brought back...a
> > huge tub of LEGO®!!! Actually they had gotten it from an aunt who had
> > stored them for 7-8 years. Upon going through the collection of pieces,
> > I found quite a few that were yellowed and beaten up pretty bad.
> > However, after close examination it was revealed that all the crappy
> > bricks were...gasp...Tyco blocks! I was relieved, because it was the
> > LEGO® that had stood the test of time (mint condition). I had always
> > wanted to watch clone bricks melt and burn, but didn't want to spend my
> > precious money on these pieces of crap. Thanks to my aunt, I'm
> > 4000-5000 pieces richer AND I get to torch the competition!
> >
> > Does anyone have similar experiences to share with the LUGNET
> > community? -
>
> I can cite the pristine TYCO Superblocks in my collection dating from
> at
> least the time of your bricks, while formerly white LEGO bricks from
> the same period are a gentle shade of urine. I think it's the luck of
> the draw insofar as your yellowed vs. non-yellowed. Alternatively,
> perhaps the previous owner of the bricks liked the TYCO much more and
> therefore used them much more heavily than the LEGO bricks.
>
> Dave!
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