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Re: A VERY interesting article on the Lego Business
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lugnet.space, lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 27 Dec 2000 14:58:55 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Paul Baulch writes:
> 
> William Brumbach wrote in message ...

> > I can't speak for your lego but my classic space is in bad shape because I
> > played with them and any unsealed sets have also been played with.  I doubt
> > the ABS is spontaneously degrading.
> 
> 
> I own proof of this very principle... a 928 that sat in a display for twenty
> years and virtually never got played with. All of the bricks are literally
> like new. What's true for cars is true for bricks, it's not the years, it's
> the mileage!

While I agree with Paul that this is true for ABS, it's not true for CA. I
have opened some 20+ year old ABS sets and they are like new.

25+ year old CA sets still in their shrinkwrap have some signs of
deterioration, the CA outgasses and becomes a bit different. ABS doesn't
seem to outgas.



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  Re: A VERY interesting article on the Lego Business
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) I'm not so sure... that is, I'm not certain that ABS _does_ outgas, but I've smelt funny smells in containers of bricks that haven't been opened for a while, that sort of suggest that it does (perhaps in (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)

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  Re: A VERY interesting article on the Lego Business
 
William Brumbach wrote in message ... (...) [...] (...) Classic (...) I own proof of this very principle... a 928 that sat in a display for twenty years and virtually never got played with. All of the bricks are literally like new. What's true for (...) (26 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)

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