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Re: Droopy Star Destroyer
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:39:08 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, James Brown wrote:
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I would lay strong odds that it’s related to temperature fluctuations;
perhaps a ‘hot spot’ on the top of the fridge. Certainly it isn’t because of
weight. For well over 6 months, I had a 26 pound Battlestar Galactica frame
sitting on it’s end (about 8 studs wide by 6 bricks tall) in the corner of my
Lego room with absolutely no evidence of damage. That same model spent the
previous year under the stairs on 2 ‘feet’, one of which bore 90% or more of
the weight, the other was just to balance it.
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Heat was my first suspect as well, however what possible source of heat is there
in the center of the top of a modern fridge? The lightbulb inside? maybe it’s
not going out when I close the door! :) And how hot would it have to get to
fuse bricks together?
Tim
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| (...) Hooray! heard back from CS over the weekend. They sent me back some of the damaged bricks and pointed out that there was a strong smell of perfume on them (which I hadn't noticed before) and that they had probably been exposed to a spill of (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: Droopy Star Destroyer
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| (...) I would lay strong odds that it's related to temperature fluctuations; perhaps a 'hot spot' on the top of the fridge. Certainly it isn't because of weight. For well over 6 months, I had a 26 pound Battlestar Galactica frame sitting on it's end (...) (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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