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I doubt the Grangemouth bricks were made from floor sweepings as they would probably
resemble the marbled slotted bricks more if it was the case. Leftovers is much
more probable.

In Colors, Stuart9 writes:

Many, if not all the Grangemouth, were made by some employees producing their
own bricks without permission from Lego or their own company.

They are said to have used leftover or floor sweeping materials but that may
not have been strictly true, who knows.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

I'm trying to sell 3001/2x4 bricks on another site, and I would like to affirm
some information I have provided them with in relation to test bricks.

Please disregard my ignorance, I just need accurate information. I would dislike
providing misleading details to any potential buyer.

Howdy. I've been collecting for a few years now. Love 'em all! Do you
know of Bricklink - it takes a while to become familiar, but if you'd like
to invest some time there, they would happily answer any of your questions.

Mursten, Bayer, BASF, Grangemouth, Wrexham, and other manufacturers were all
contracted by LEGO to produce plastics for their bricks. LEGO provided them with
2x4 molds as test examples.
I'm not sure as to how they all aquired the molds they did, but the Mursten
ABCD bricks are in relation to a clutch test - how firmly they grip to another
piece.' A' being the tightest clutch and 'D' being the loosest.
Due to those test examples LEGO now use the 'C' as the brick of choice.
Modulex is an Architectural scale brick - being an ignorant Aussie, I'm not
familiar with it exactly. They're ultra-cute, that's all I know about
that.
The milky, marbled, and semi-transparent bricks were all produced by the aforementioned
companies because they were pumping coloured plastics into the molds they were
provided with without cleaning the injection pipes before adding another coloured
plastic - in the case of the milky/semi-transparent, they were not adding enough
colour to the mold?
I will do a quick research on prices for you regarding the bricks I've offered
you.

I can tell you that I have never seen a double A, B, C, or D brick being offered
for sale, let alone a complete set. Having said that, does not mean they do not
exist.

If you're not in a rush, I'm happy to get you more information!

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Nathan123

Posted:

Dec 5, 2019 15:26

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Re: 3001 information

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The 7xg 1x# is likely a Bayer too although I believe they were made in Italy.
They range in numbers 1-6 and are the only ones with the cross support. They
are effectively a modern 3001.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

I've seen Garbanzos 8F transparent neon green brick for sale.
I'm more interested in selling these than buying any.
What about the 7g 3/4 bricks - what's their story?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Right now, I'm specifically interested in LEGO branded bricks exclusively,
with the exception of unusually sized bricks - Duplo and Modulex sized bricks.
Modulex is so cute though!

In Colors, Stuart9 writes:

Have to agree with Nathan here, post a few pics and just watch who appears.

There are a number of bricks associated with Wrexham too, many of which aren't
that well known and not particularly collected, maybe only one or two of us.

These look like many other standard bricks, nothing unusual, the only one I would
pick out other than the waxy looking bricks are those UK sideways logo bricks.

Samsonite of North America produced these sideways logo bricks too but the mould
markings, studs, logo style, spruce position are different as are the colours
available.

They come in CA and ABS.

In Colors, Nathan123 writes:

ABCD bricks? Pictures are nice 🙂.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

I aquired some and listed then for sale on another site.
If you have a link to something that will inform me of exactly what I'm selling,
I really would appreciate that - more than you know.

In Colors, Nathan123 writes:

You have testbricks or just want to learn more about them?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Dec 5, 2019 14:36

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Re: 3001 information

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As for the abcd ones they are more common than the 2xabcd ones and come in all
sorts of colors...there are supposed to be over a thousand shades that bayer
made. The set is very nice. The milky bricks are a bit uncommon and look good.
It is just a mix of color and uncolored plastic and as more coloring is added
it would appear more and more "solid".

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

In Colors, Nathan123 writes:

There is an actual listing for 2x4 test bricks and prototypes here on Bricklink.
They fall into 3001special 😁

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

You have testbricks or just want to learn more about them?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Dec 5, 2019 14:29

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Re: 3001 information

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Those are nice, 2xabcd large Bayer bricks. There is another set of 2xabcd bricks
with small letters. I am not too familiar with them and only have a handful.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

In Colors, Nathan123 writes:

There is an actual listing for 2x4 test bricks and prototypes here on Bricklink.
They fall into 3001special 😁

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

You have testbricks or just want to learn more about them?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Dec 5, 2019 14:09

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Re: 3001 information

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There is an actual listing for 2x4 test bricks and prototypes here on Bricklink.
They fall into 3001special 😁

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

You have testbricks or just want to learn more about them?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Dec 5, 2019 14:00

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Re: 3001 information

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ABCD bricks? Pictures are nice 🙂.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

You have testbricks or just want to learn more about them?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Dec 5, 2019 13:49

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Re: 3001 information

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You have testbricks or just want to learn more about them?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Dec 5, 2019 13:44

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Re: 3001 information

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Bayer made the ABCD bricks. They also helped Lego in many other tests and there
are plenty of test bricks from Bayer spanning over about 40 years.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

That's old school. Who made the ABCD bricks?

In Colors, Nathan123 writes:

Lego Mursten is referring to the slotted bricks that came after the automatic
binding bricks stage. Early/mid 1950s i think. Mursten translates to "brick".
There were companies that made the slotted bricks under Lego license...GEAS in
Sweden comes to mind.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Were Mursten the first company contracted by LEGO to produce bricks?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

The only truly dirty brick I've seen is a bright green 8C? That was produced
by Bayer?

In Colors, Stuart9 writes:

Many, if not all the Grangemouth, were made by some employees producing their
own bricks without permission from Lego or their own company.

They are said to have used leftover or floor sweeping materials but that may
not have been strictly true, who knows.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Dec 5, 2019 13:34

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Re: 3001 information

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Were Mursten the first company contracted by LEGO to produce bricks?

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

The only truly dirty brick I've seen is a bright green 8C? That was produced
by Bayer?

In Colors, Stuart9 writes:

Many, if not all the Grangemouth, were made by some employees producing their
own bricks without permission from Lego or their own company.

They are said to have used leftover or floor sweeping materials but that may
not have been strictly true, who knows.

In Colors, brick.bewdy writes:

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 23, 2019 18:15

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Re: 4150 not dead?

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Catalog

In Catalog, maxx3001 writes:

In Catalog, SylvainLS writes:

In Catalog, maxx3001 writes:

In Catalog, Teup writes:

In Catalog, Hygrotus writes:

In Catalog, Teup writes:

That's funny. I just encountered 4 of these:

LEGO just uses everything they have, maybe they dug up an old container with
the X bottom and mixed them in with the newer parts.

LEGO never throws anything away, this is how we got old Maersk blue 3001old in
modern sets

I wonder though: what happens when the variants aren’t functionnally equivalent?

LEGO doesn’t really care, a brick is a brick is a brick.

Except for 3001specials. They are a brick's brick and an example for all
the other bricks to follow.

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 8, 2019 10:08

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Re: Forum Reforms

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In Suggestions, Adjour writes:

My personal opinion is the format is largely fine. I modded for years on a v
bulletin based board and the only real feature I miss is editing ability.

What I noticed is wholesome posts are largely ignored here. People posting mocs
or collections are almost completely ignored while drama posts create long chains
of comments

I remember a regular member posting a very nice collection photo because they
were excited about finishing or near finishing it iirc. I think it got two replies...

On Reddit, that same post would have got hundreds of positive replies.

I know personally I've had a few cool post ideas, but I know if it's
not negative or dramatic they will only be met with crickets.

Again, just my opinion

The difference in size is probably why there could be hundreds of positive comments
and upvotes while being met with silence here. Here there cannot be more than
a couple hundred people looking at the BL forum for any significant amount of
time from day to day. The issue in my opinion is that there isn't enough
interest to get more people using the forum but the other problem is that if
more people were to use the forum it would become harder to use as posts would
get buried that much faster.

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 8, 2019 04:23

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Re: Forum Reforms

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In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:

In Suggestions, Nathan123 writes:

It seems the forum isn't getting the same kind of community involvement as
it once did. It is fairly common to see less than 100 messages per day and I
had to go back to July to find a day that had over 200. The way the forum works
right now it can be very frustrating and time consuming finding posts of interest
as even new posts get buried quickly under 2 or 3 more active posts and that
makes it difficult to participate in the forum if you do not have the time to
browse or search through it. In terms of utility the bricklink forum is not as
easy to use and enjoy as say brickset forum. There are a lot of good parts of
the BL forum but I feel it is largely being ruined.

My suggestion is that when a post is responded to the post itself moves to the
top but it doesn't show up as a new message, so if a post is made and has
10 replies it will still just look like one post on the forum. I would also like
to recommend that certain categories get put into a different area apart from
the forum so maybe for example buying and selling, inventory change requests,
and sales posts could be seperated from the rest so they don't bury the rest
of the posts out there and stagnate the forum.

The goal would be to allow more people and ideas to participate in the community.

There are certainly some improvements to be made - pinning posts, notification
/ subscription plans, ability to edit or completely remove posted material -
but most of what you are asking for here can already be done.

First, the BrickLink Discussions Forum is actually many individual Forums all
joined together, including hidden Forums backstage for our community admins.
If you don't wish to read everything, start on this page and read only what
interests you:

https://www.bricklink.com/messageTopics.asp?utm_content=subnav

Second, you can customize the Forum to your exact specifications, including viewing
each thread without the replies. You can also block certain Forums (e.g. sales
posts). See the settings on this page:

https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P

I've never seen a Forum with this level of user customization, and I believe
most members don't even know about these options. Try out these suggestions
and see if that helps your impression.

I have been reading the Forum consistently for over 10 years, and I've noticed
that like rainy and dry periods with the weather, Forum participation ebbs and
flows with time. And if by "community involvement" you mean people like Foster
and Dan/Jon beating each other up on a regular basis, that sort of behavior isn't
tolerated anymore.

Thank you for this information! I had no clue those options already existed although
I probably should have. It could be that the forum is just in one of those periods
of decreased participation but from the stats it doesn't seem like it has
really changed all that much in about 9 months...to me it seems it should be
busier and for whatever the reason is, it is apparent the forum just has not
grabbed people's interest.

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 8, 2019 02:37

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Re: Forum Reforms

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In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:

In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:

In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:

In Suggestions, Nathan123 writes:

I love the way this old Forum works. Sorry if I am in the minority. I would argue
that the lack of community involvement is directly related to the management's
antipathy.

Jen

+ several

+ a number of mine

If management is lacking, why use the forum, you can ask, suggest all you like,
it won’t change a thing.

BrickLink is going the way of the Dodo, while sailors are eating on.....

At this point it is just a money generating donkey, pulling a load to heavy for
its back

Why not ask though? Maybe it is unlikely anything improves but if no one wants
improvements then it will never happen. Wanting the forum to be more interesting
and grow the number of people wjo use it seems like is shouldn't be beyond
expectations.

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 8, 2019 02:26

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Re: Forum Reforms

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In Suggestions, JusTiCe8 writes:

In addition to what others wrote, you can click on "all" link on top and you'll
get new replies to old topics.

The whole website needs work, but forum is far down below the needto list I guess.

In Suggestions, Nathan123 writes:

It seems the forum isn't getting the same kind of community involvement as
it once did. It is fairly common to see less than 100 messages per day and I

[...]

The goal would be to allow more people and ideas to participate in the community.

The forum itself doesn't generate very much business or interest for that
matter but if we don't ask for improvements we shouldn't be surprised
when nothing happens.

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 8, 2019 02:21

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Re: Forum Reforms

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In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:

In Suggestions, Nathan123 writes:

I love the way this old Forum works. Sorry if I am in the minority. I would argue
that the lack of community involvement is directly related to the management's
antipathy.

Jen

You don't have to apologize for having a different opinion. My point is that
the forum needs help.l It looks like the forum is getting less and less use despite
supposedly more people signing up as buyers than ever before.

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 7, 2019 22:48

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Re: Forum Reforms

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In Suggestions, dearlydeparted writes:

I agree that the forum can be tedious. The interface and lack of features compared
to other sites is antiquated. Would be nice to be able to edit for one and a
notification feature with link when someone responds to your post - just to name
a few.

Those are good ideas! I guess the forum already has a button to hide the replies
but it doesn't move the posts up and I would argue it should be the default
setting. If people don't see something that interests them right away they
are not as likely to stay, read, and participate.

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 7, 2019 21:43

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Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Apr 23, 2019 15:06

Subject:

Re: Help with color id'ing

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I expect Ryan will comment sooner or later but for now his picture regarding
the colors may help.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126975831@N07/17768155498/

In Colors, normann1974 writes:

I'm trying to sort my Bionicle arms

53989 Arm Mechanical, Exo-Force / Bionicle, Thin Support
Parts: Minifigure, Body Part

but I have a hard time identifying the dark grayish colors. I've found these
six variations (numbered from left to right). Here is what I know:

#1 is Dark Bluish Gray
#2-#5 look "pearlish"
#5 is Pearl Dark Gray
Either #2 or #3 (or both) must be Flat silver because they best correspond to
a Flat Silver bionicle eye also shown in the image (the angle of light may not
show their colors being the same, but they are rather close).
#3 is a bit more silvery than #2
#5 has a golden tint compared to #4.

There is a pearl light gray part in the bottom (a fish) to show that none of
the parts in question is that color.

Any help is appreciated.

/Jan

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Jul 17, 2015 15:32

Subject:

Re: Marbled as a color. And a spot for errors.

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In Suggestions, j7r7o7c7k7 writes:

Could we add marbled to the list of sell able colors or to add it so we could
select it for want list colors? Something like that.

And could we maybe have a area where error parts or unknown parts could be listed
for sale. Or any item that is kinda a error. Just a spot where we could list
or search or oddities.

Also side note about these. Maybe if you do list items for sale in these areas
there will be something that says "it is really encouraged to use a actual picture
of the item, if you are listing in these categories".

Something along these type lines where people could find the not so common type
stuff and those really rare one of a kinds.

Good suggestion, the 2x4 collectors already have 3001special and it works very
well

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 9, 2014 10:00

Subject:

Re: Would like to search part # in calendar

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In Suggestions, Nathan123 writes:

I really like the calendar page (imbetween "browse" and "favorites" under the
"Buy" tab). It's easy to find newly listed items and saves a lot of time
however to my knowledge we can't search individual ID #. My suggestion is
to add a option to filter the calendar results by part, set, and minifigure numbers.

Bump

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Nov 8, 2014 14:06

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Would like to search part # in calendar

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Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Jan 23, 2014 19:52

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Re: Definition of Shipped

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In Suggestions, tylerawalters writes:

BrickLink Help defines the statuses this way:
Paid- Payment received.
Packed - Package has been sealed but not yet shipped.
Shipped - Package has been shipped but not yet received by buyer.

Thanks!

Author:

Nathan123

Posted:

Jan 23, 2014 19:46

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