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Subject:	Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:53:47 GMT
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Duane Hess wrote: > OK Point well taken. I was speaking strictly from the instance where the > hinges are used in pairs. I can see not including the mating hinge half > when using it with other elements, but my opinion remains unchanged when > you have a pair of hinges with different colored halves. It would be nice > if I were able to make an all white hinge and an all blue hinge, instead > of two blue and white hinges. Ah, NOW i get it. Is this it? "Suppose you have a model that for artistic reasons should have blue white hinges. Fine. Make one blue end the 2 end and the other blue end the 3 end, when possible. Ditto for white Then the builder later has one complete all white hinge and one complete all blue hinge..." The reason I bet TLG doesn't do this relates to number of different parts. Each part is in a different cassette. you now have 4 cassettes that have to be present during part insertion into bags where doing it the other way you only have 2 cassettes... two less steps in the mfg process. -- Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please. - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please. - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please. - This is a family newsgroup, thanks.

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		Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
(...) Correctamundo (...) I can see their point in the manufacturing/packaging processes. With their volume though, the added costs should be minimal. Think about the variety of parts in many of their sets. I could argue this point for quite a while (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
(...) Not to mention what it would do to their molding production runs... The 'hinge runs' are relatively small (hinges aren't that common), and alternating colors would give them twice as many hinge runs, each at half the size. Steve (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
(...) a (...) a (...) the (...) OK Point well taken. I was speaking strictly from the instance where the hinges are used in pairs. I can see not including the mating hinge half when using it with other elements, but my opinion remains unchanged when (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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