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Re: Attic Heat
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lugnet.storage
Date: 
Wed, 8 May 2002 01:33:22 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Bert Waters writes:

If anyone has either stored their Lego in the attic for years without
noticing damage or has melted bricks from the attic, I would like to hear
about it. It is so tempting to store some of the collection in the attic...

I've never lived in a house with an attic, but I can tell you I used
to keep a gallon ziplock bag of used and abuse pieces behind the seat
of my NLS's pickup truck to play with, and they were none the worse
for wear, even after baking in 100F+ summer heat. The only reason
I stopped is because a gallon of miscellaneous parts wasn't enough
to really create anything I wanted and it was too frustrating not to
have the right parts on hand.

Maggie C.



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  Re: Attic Heat
 
Almost all of my Lego from my childhood was stored in an attic for 10 years in Northern Virginia, which can get pretty hot in the summer. The attic had a fan, but if you went searching for something up there in July, you found it FAST, or you came (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)

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  Attic Heat
 
I just completed a Lugnet post search on "attic heat" and did not read any postings that said: "Attic heat destroyed my Legos." I was wondering if our intuition tells us not to store in the attic but if in all actuality there is no hard evidence of (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)

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