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Me love the Dutch and their Legos
Otterman
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:24 pm 
It's a common secret here on TacCommand that I make molds of stuff. Um, my own stuff.

Part of mold-making is building the mold box to contain the silicon. In the tradition of Bruce Hirst I use Legos (the 1-wide kind) to build my mold boxes.

For more than a year I have been plundering Bella's Legos for my own nefarious ends. They tend to be 2 and 4 bricks long, making for a tedious building process. I decided to address this by ordering numerous long blocks from Lego spare parts.

Ordering was very easy, they packed and shipped rapidly and cheaply: $5 from Copenhagan to Texas.

Last night I built my first mold boxes from the new longer blocks, reducing that part of the process from 5 minutes to 30 seconds. Sweet!
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:35 pm 
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How about making molds of your mold boxes so you don't have to build them anymore. :p

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Smart.

However, what did the Dutch have to do with it? :)

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:43 pm 
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The Dutch operate the port of Rotterdam. Many Danish legos pass through it. Gotta love the Dutch and their legos. And their scotch.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:58 pm 
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This is hecka confusing. haha

Lego is from Danmark, the Danish.
Well, yes, Rotterdam has a large port.
But is Lego shipped with train from Copenhagen to Rotterdam and then on ship to the US. Or was the paticular order from Otterman done with airmail.

Well?

haha

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Otterman
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:03 pm 
Ug. Sorry about that. I have a weird mental problem that makes me equate Copenhagan with Amsterdam.
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Otterman
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:11 pm 
So, let me distract you from my stupidity with another tale of my stupidity: ordering Smooth-On resin.

Smooth-On makes a lot of different products. Some of those products are resin. The kind of resin I use is a 1:1 mixture (that means it comes in two different containers, and you mix equal parts together) with low viscosity (i.e. it's as thin as possible), with a pot life of about 5 minutes (i.e. it doesn't thicken until 5 minutes go by).

There are three different products that fit those qualities:
305 : Eye-searing white
321 : Forge-World Tan
326 : Transluscent amber

I mistakenly ordered some 326 (thinking it to be 321), and was shocked when I extracted transluscent parts. While the effect is certainly cool, it is bad for quality because miscasts are hard to spot. So, I ordered some brown colorant for it; the 325+ series is intended to be colored. The colorant jel is hella-strong. I have never encountered a dye as strong as this. Just a couple of squirts changed 2 pints from clear to a coffee color. This is better quality-wise, but unsatisfactory, because the intended effect was tan.

Another unpleasant side-effect of the 326 is that you can't see the 'bloom'. 'Bloom' is the technical term for when the resin undergoes a thermal state change and goes from clear to white (or tan, for 321).

The lesson here is "Don't order Smooth On 326 unless you want transluscent parts."
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Otterman
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:12 pm 
But I still love the Dutch, don't get me wrong.
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Warmaster Nice
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:18 pm 
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(Otterman @ Mar. 04 2008,15:03)
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Ug. Sorry about that. I have a weird mental problem that makes me equate Copenhagan with Amsterdam.

No worries. I get the same problem if the party is good enough.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:19 pm 
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(Otterman @ Mar. 04 2008,15:12)
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But I still love the Dutch, don't get me wrong.

To quote Nigel Powers in Goldmember: "There's only two people I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the DUTCH!

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:25 pm 
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I'll start throwing clogs then....


heh heh

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*ducks for cover* :D

Seriously: I love that film. There's some deleted scenes where Mike Myers improvises as Goldmember with his gibberish Dutch. Genious :D

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:40 pm 
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"Ah yesh, you're toit!  Toit, like a toiger!"

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We had a really nice Dutch family come and stay in our Gite last August, they had a 10-year old son who played with my fiancees kids really well, even though he spoke very little English.  After their stay, my fiancee's daughter said to us: "What does 'yesh' mean?"

Ahh, bless the little children... :confuse:
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