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 Author: Akir View Messages Posted By Akir
 Posted: Feb 23, 2024 15:02
 Subject: I'm coloring!
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 Topic: General
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My brick turned green! So happy! Thanks to everybody who ordered and left feedback,
you're my heroes! And we had a great streak, 2/3 of customers gave me feedback
in the last months, thanks once again!
Now everybody come shop with me, people, let's get to the red one!
I think pizza was the appropriate thing now, right?
 Author: Akir View Messages Posted By Akir
 Posted: Feb 8, 2024 11:55
 Subject: Re: LB-gray color variation or sun ?? Help
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 Topic: Colors
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The arches on the right look like light grey to me, not LBG (in the other pictures
the difference is not that visible), is it possible you had some old parts mixed
in?

In Colors, Kraampje43 writes:
  Hi!

I am having a small issue with a customer who claims te have recieved parts with
sun damage

He sent me pictures of what i believe are his own arches (or maybe other arches
out of the same order: i do not know) and the different "sun damaged"
parts picked out of the different lots/items

Since all parts have the same color on the inside and outside i suspect color
variations/inconsistencies from a parted out set (7094)

Trying to resolve the issue with the customer but i am wondering how yall are
handling this, also with the sand green, dark red, pearl gold and other color
inconsistencies, since it also seems to happen in modern new sets

Do you still opload the part?
Do you place a note on seperated lot?
Or ditch the parts in a bulk bin?

Thanks in advance!!!
 Author: Akir View Messages Posted By Akir
 Posted: Feb 8, 2024 06:32
 Subject: Re: What is #44814 Glitter Trans-Clear coated in?
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 Topic: Catalog
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In Catalog, NoGravitasHere writes:
  Had this first image cross my path today, a supposedly non-glittery Avohkii.
It reminded me of a damaged one I had in my sad bin, which had a chunk of its
crest missing its trademark shininess. I had to mess with a bunch of other stripping
chemicals anyway (bonus pic of my shiny new dechromed Light Grey Hau) so I figured
I'd chuck this in some chems and see what happened.

Evapo-Rust was unreactive, unsurprisingly. I only used that because I knew it
could strip galvanisation off screws and I had the ex-chrome Hau to test (also
no reaction). Simple Green concentrate was similarly unreactive, but stripped
the Hau perfectly when used with the ultrasonic cleaner. I did manage to get
a positive reaction with IPA, and was able to get the glitter layer to go tacky.
I scraped off the majority of the central crest with my thumbnail as a proof
of concept sorta thing. I can confirm that it's just a layer over top. There's
a milky white transparent mask underneath. I feel cheated.

I've currently got it sitting overnight in a bath of acetone-based nail polish
remover (hardware store was closed, supermarket was not lmao) and will strip
the glitter 'varnish' off entirely. I'd love to know exactly what
this glitter layer is made of, if anyone has any insight? It might make removing
it a little easier.

The next question here is: what colour actually is this? I was under the impression
117 Glitter Trans-Clear was plastic with embedded glitter, not just a coating.
Would this just be 40 Trans-Clear + shiny varnish?

Cheers
James @ PSPS

Looking forward to reading about the effect of the nail polish remover - I tried
that once to remove stains from a minifig, and it dissolved the plastic altogether,
so I stopped using that...
 Author: Akir View Messages Posted By Akir
 Posted: Feb 1, 2024 03:43
 Subject: Re: Fake or real?
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 Topic: Catalog Identification
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In Catalog Identification, Anje572 writes:
  We've had these two brown rifles with our Lego for over 20 years, they look
like part 30141, but they don't have any logo or numbers, are they fake?
The bottom one is part 30141, reddish brown.

If you've had them for that long, I'd rather vote for genuine - Lego
parts without logo were a thing in the 20th century, and the really well-made
fakes, barely distinguishable from the originals, seem to me a more recent problem.
But that's just my feeling, would need a more serious Lego historian to put
a verified date to that...
 Author: Akir View Messages Posted By Akir
 Posted: Dec 10, 2023 04:55
 Subject: Re: Parts database Excel file
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 Topic: Catalog
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In Catalog, hpoort writes:
  In Catalog, JoBen writes:
  Is there a partsdatabase of Lego parts used in technic sets ?

The catalog download page is here: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp

You can download a list of all parts, or you can download the inventory of a
single set, but there is no way to classify these parts as 'used in technic
sets' directly.

With BrickStore it should be possible to compile a list of all technic sets;
once you have that, you can part them all out with one click (ok, maybe two or
three). Haven't tried that though, it might be a strain on memory space to
work with that large a list.

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