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(...) Heh. Very good! Mine slightly diverges, mostly because I am so full of what the SubGenius call "slack" (to the rest of you, that means I'm "lazy"). I bought many, many sets over the years. After buying a set, I would always put it together, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) begin (...) [big snip] Thanks a lot Remy for sharing this story with us. I did enjoy it, being myself currently at stage 17 now I know what to expect from the future... :-) Ciao Mario Lego web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) ...You begin trading in all of your other worldly possesions, lose your job, lose your wife, kids, and life...your family members disown you, you begin to drool and froth at the mouth and spend the rest of your days in a mental institution, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Here's a description of an evolution of lego collection sorting. It might be yours, at least in parts. It's certainly been mine. I might turn this into an essay some day, but for now it will have to begin life as a series of unsupported claims. If (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage) !!
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Here in Binghamton NY we have a store called Big Lots (its owned by Kay Bee). Tucked in a dark corner of the store I found about 50, 3500 - 3packs, all for $3.99. Thinking this was a good deal I got one set to use as switch outs on my 1258. When it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.storage)
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(...) For those Americans (and possibly others) who may not have much knowledge of chemistry, Jan-Albert is talking about bleach (though my bottle of bleach is only a 5% solution, not the 30% Jan-Albert mentions - which probably explains why Cary (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Well after testing this a couple of times (and thanks to Klaas Meijaard for bringing it to my attention) here's what I found to be an excellent way to get those yellowed white parts to look as new again... A chloride solution (I used a product (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yeah, that's a much smarter suggestion. Especially given the fact that the person looking for the instructions would essentially want to get them for free (and why not - they're not worth anything to me, other than as packing material - which (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Sorry, I've done that before - even held onto them and put them up for silly low prices like a nickel or something (plus shipping) and 99.9% of the time they just sit there. Every once in a while I will see that someone is looking for a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Actually, what might be better is if you post a list of the instructions you're most looking for (in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade of course). Many of us may have instructions we're willing to part with (so far, I have only thrown out (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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