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Re: Droopy Star Destroyer
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:49:06 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Tim McSweeney wrote:
   In lugnet.starwars, James Brown wrote:
  
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.


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

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 air freshener which often contains solvents that can damage ABS. I guess I was wrong in originally dismissing a chemical spill :)

Alls well that ends well, at the cost of my slightly dented pride my ISD is now rebuilt and once again in pride of place looming over the flat.

Cheers Tim



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  Re: Droopy Star Destroyer
 
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 11-Sep-03, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)

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