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Re: 10152 Maersk promo ship comes back as 10155
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Date: 
Mon, 3 Jan 2011 02:51:02 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, John Cooper wrote:

   I suspect the previous limited production run used a batch of pre-colored ABS granules. Now that many of the molding operations have converted to coloration at the machine, it may be easier to make special colors (ie Maersk blue) in limited batches.

Ah! I wasn’t aware of that--I just figured that the manufacturing process was still more or less the same.



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  Re: 10152 Maersk promo ship comes back as 10155
 
(...) I suspect the previous limited production run used a batch of pre-colored ABS granules. Now that many of the molding operations have converted to coloration at the machine, it may be easier to make special colors (ie Maersk blue) in limited (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jan-11, to lugnet.promo, FTX)

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