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Re: Lindsay's Navy
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Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:34:56 GMT
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"Arrr, me ship be smellin' fresh as a baby's bottom!"
--
Paul Davidson, aka Tinman
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Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message
news:38ACE24C.B556BCA8@pilot.msu.edu...
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>
> Frank Filz wrote:
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> > Richard Parsons wrote:
> > >
> > > Mr L F Braun wrote
> > >
> > > > obNeatThingsI'mGettingAndDoing: I won a couple of eBay auctions, and • I'm
> > > getting
> > > > an Imperial Flagship hull and a Caribbean Clipper hull to add to the • BSB
> > > hull I
> > > > got last week and the RBR I have awaiting assembly in the basement! • :)
> > > Things
> > > > are looking pretty darn rosy for my retro-shipbuilding. In related • news,
> > > I'm
> > > > considering beginning a first-generation European ironclad (a la the • French
> > > ship
> > > > Gloire, c. 1860, and HMS Warrior a year later). However it may be • mostly
> > > black so
> > > > I'm not sure how it will photograph...
> > >
> > > You're turning me green.
> >
> > Well, the IF hull is going to turn him green until he has a chance to
> > soak it in a cleaning solution (the eBay seller he won it from has
> > really nice lots, unfortuanately someone in her household smokes like a
> > chimney, I usually have to get the packing straight out to the trash to
> > restore my capability to breathe in my apartment after opening a package
> > from her).
> >
> > Lindsay,
> >
> > Just remember to take the screws out of the bow and stern before soaking
> > them. Mike Walsh mentions that a diluted solution of Pine-Sol works, and
> > takes only an hour or so (I wouldn't leave LEGO parts in such a solution
> > overnight though).
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> Thanks for the tips--I may very well do this, now that I've been • officially
> warned. :) However, my mother smokes like a chimney, so I'm somewhat • inured to
> it--most of my LEGO either has never been in her house, though, or it's • been out
> so long that it doesn't smell of smoke much. Either way, I'll definitely • keep
> this in mind. Just so long as you're not suggesting diluted bleach or
> acetone..."arrrr! me hull be meltin' fast!"
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> I'm looking forward to it, though. (And I have some pine-sol in the • closet, it's
> "mountain spring" or somesuch, so it'll be a fresh and delightful Imperial
> Flagship!)
>
> best
>
> Lindsay
>
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| (...) Thanks for the tips--I may very well do this, now that I've been officially warned. :) However, my mother smokes like a chimney, so I'm somewhat inured to it--most of my LEGO either has never been in her house, though, or it's been out so (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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