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(...) Practically everything is cheaper on BrickLink. Very few parts are cheaper from online Pick-a-Brick and shipping just makes it worse. Now, in-store PAB is a different deal. That can be incredibly cheap, for some parts. Tim (18 years ago, 6-May-07, to lugnet.parts)
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Who might know? I was just on Lego's pick a brick and a brick 1x1 that has the studs on two sides is 9 cents, studs on 4 sides is 24 cents, almost 3 times as much for 2 extra studs. (actually 3 studs for the first one and 5 for the second one.) I (...) (18 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) snip I have thought of this off-and-on over the time since I've read this: Make all the arches as half-arches, like the 1x5x4 arch. That would eliminate the stress point problem. Larger arches, too, like 12-stud+ spans. Also in round (...) (18 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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(...) Epoxy works like wood glue, in that it needs to permeate the surface of the materials that it is bonding in order to get anything more than a light adhesion. At my last job, when we were epoxying resin tooling board together, we'd regularly (...) (18 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) Some of the thin CA glues have a solvent added (MEK?), the superglue brand seems to have more then the others. While working on some movie props I needed to glue some detail onto a curved surface. the thin SG brand caused the thin styrene (...) (18 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) I've found cyanoacrylate 'Super Glue' isn't good at holding LEGO together for long. But, this is mainly down to the shiny surface of parts. Where I've sanded the edge of a push switch and fitted it into a train controller, it's an incredibly (...) (18 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) I put the granular trees in the sets thinking people just wanted to keep those. I was wondering if any ever came with the tree or the sellers just were not willing to give them up. I know that the granular trees came an went very quickly, they (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts)
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In lugnet.parts, John Patterson wrote: <SNIP> (...) John, many of the LEGO sets of the first half of the 1970's had those granular trees until 1974, when the models switched to conical Pine trees. You just happen to have later versions of those (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) Like I said, post over there if you are looking for a part. Lots of times somebody will have one that they will list specially for you. Tim (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) As Aaron States, the use of MEK was BANNED from the Lego modelshops back in 1998, and GBL was introduced. Many health issues were being presented and an article written in the LEGO REVIEW magazine, a corporate magazine spoke about the (...) (18 years ago, 4-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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