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Re: Top ten useless Lego pieces (and how to use them...)
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Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:05:53 GMT
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Once upon a time, Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote:

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.

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



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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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