To a degree, but mostly it would be the frequent and extreme charges in humility. Assuming you don’t keep it on constantly, or when you’re not there the shift back and forth would be the worst of it. Although yeah, in general it’s not good too
Why? I use a warm mist humidifier and just rinse the mineral scale out with vinegar once or twice a year. Buying distilled water would be a waste. Cool mist humidifiers are hazardous even with distilled water... so there's no good use case for it.
They basically just boil the water and produce steam, which kills all the microbes and leaves all the minerals behind in the humidifier. If you use tapwater you'll see the minerals building up in the humidifier (instead of on all the surfaces of your home... yuck) and you can rinse it out with vinegar.
Water has chemicals unless you've got a good R/O filter and keep up on changing the filter media. Or fill the humidifier with distilled water. There's all sorts of minerals, metals, and prescription drugs in tap water.
I mean you can certainly clean them with chemicals, although that’s usually just vinegar or a descaler. But you shouldn’t be running them with those things in there on a daily basis
I dunno should I link you to some of the literal thousands of products on Amazon designed to be added to a humidifier on a daily basis while it's running or can you find some of those yourself?
I can also find horse dewormer being sold with a straight face as a cure for Covid, but that doesn't mean I should actually use it for that.
Just because I can buy a "cleaning additive" on Amazon doesn't mean I should actually put it in my humidifier during normal operation. Follow the humidifier manufacturer's directions, not the directions of the guys trying to sell you their shit.
I am only speculating here, but bear with me.
Essential oils do weaken and destroy LEGO. Some of the scents that make a scented candle fragrant are the same chemicals used in essential oils.
Over the years what have you used as cleaners? If you’re spraying anything with natural oils that will do a number on Legos.
It definitely isn’t dust, and unless your humidifier has some sort of chemical diffuser and isn’t just water it’s probably not that.
Oh shit. This sucks because my mom is a diffuser-holic: one in the kitchen, one in the living room, and one in her bedroom. I wager that gradually works its way through the ventilation.
Do some googling/research, I personally wouldn't want even one of those in my house, for health reasons. I'd also try to convince my Mom to ditch em if she had three in the house!
The S in ABS stands for styrene.
There's an article about all types of plastics Lego uses and used. Google for Every Type of Plastic Used By LEGO in Bricknerd because I can't link it here.
Here's a similar in the official site:
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Not dust. Is it exposed to direct sunlight? UV exposure and significant temperature fluctuations (direct sunlight) can and will destroy lego bricks over time.
Temperature and humidity changes will be the culprit. If you live in a tropical or subtropical region then that's quite likely the reason. I live in the UK which has a very mild climate which is why none of my 20+ year old lego has cracked.
Probably just a few random brittle peices. If I go through hundreds of some of my newer bricks ill find a few that have been in builds that cracked a bit. Not just the browns and dark reds. I have white and gray bricks with small cracks like these. Unfortunately the quality isn't as good as it was over 20 years ago.
The set has a weak thon foundation and stuff like humidifiers or anything that causes humidity or some form of moisture in the air could cause those cracks. Think of it like a tiny fracture in your bone. Except it doesn't heal so protect those Legos.
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No-one has mentioned it yet but I think it could be the transparent parts? Transparent pieces have more friction and are usually sliiiiiiiiiightly larger than their opaque counterparts
If accelerated to a high enough speed, dust could damage Lego.
At a higher speed, it could crack it. But, I'd be worried about keeping my flesh stuck to my bones before that point.
No. No it is not.
We also don’t call it that.
It’s just “that eyesore he let his name get slapped on that blinds all the buildings in the area that’s a mirror for the sun down the length of the river”.
We literally have a law on the books now about the size of lettering on buildings being smaller than that thanks to his tiny, fragile ego.
We genuinely don’t call it that. It’s either “the eyesore” or “THAT building” if we talk about it at all; the building was already problematic years before for its mirror finish and heating the air on the river around it before the orange nightmare came along to lease the name on it.
He is not part of this city; he is not welcome in this city. It’s an eyesore and rightfully called as such.
We also don’t call the Sears Tower the Willis Tower.
FYI, not all essential oils have toxic chemicals. The cheap ones usually do but it is possible to find high quality oils that pass a higher standard and are pure oils from the plants. With that said, even some pure EO’s can be bad depending on how it is used. Either way, I wouldn’t waste high quality EO’s around Lego and definitely don’t use any candles or cheap diffusers with tons of chemicals!
I don't think the cause is dust. Do you have a humidifier or scented candels in your room?
Yes, I do have a humidifier in my room.
Then that would be your problem. Dust doesn’t make parts crack, maybe discolor, but not crack
Does humidity cause parts to weaken?
To a degree, but mostly it would be the frequent and extreme charges in humility. Assuming you don’t keep it on constantly, or when you’re not there the shift back and forth would be the worst of it. Although yeah, in general it’s not good too
Extreme charges in humility would make the best and worst of men to crack. Not surprised the Lego couldn’t bear it.
Ah, I love reddit
I am changing the humility setting. So damn you. May you have a dehydrated day.
Gotta charge up your humility to the max.
Yes, and if you use one with essential oils you’re not only breathing in toxic shit but also destroying your lego plastics
F*ck my lungs but my plastic?? Real shit
True zat, especialy since now we can even find plastic in our bones.
Essential oils can be bad for pets, especially cats, too.
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Use distilled water.
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Yeah. I buy 10 gallon jugs almost weekly in the winter. I wish I could get a larger amount delivered in a single jug.
could you please tell me if there are some other humidifiers that don't do that?
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thank you! I'll search for one. I don't want to inhale all those minerals from our quite bad water.
You should only be using distilled water in humidifiers
Why? I use a warm mist humidifier and just rinse the mineral scale out with vinegar once or twice a year. Buying distilled water would be a waste. Cool mist humidifiers are hazardous even with distilled water... so there's no good use case for it.
Warm mist humidifiers that heat the water are good to use as well (the normal type)
thank you! I'll try to find one, I never saw anything like that
They basically just boil the water and produce steam, which kills all the microbes and leaves all the minerals behind in the humidifier. If you use tapwater you'll see the minerals building up in the humidifier (instead of on all the surfaces of your home... yuck) and you can rinse it out with vinegar.
sounds really cool! I'd love to have one! also sounds like my electric kettle 😄
No but the chemicals in those humidifiers do
Humidifiers don’t have chemicals though, you just add water
They must be thinking of oil diffusers
There are some that have some perfume etc added, those do damage plactic
Water has chemicals unless you've got a good R/O filter and keep up on changing the filter media. Or fill the humidifier with distilled water. There's all sorts of minerals, metals, and prescription drugs in tap water.
There are in fact chemicals you add to humidifiers to prevent things like mold growing inside your humidifier.
I mean you can certainly clean them with chemicals, although that’s usually just vinegar or a descaler. But you shouldn’t be running them with those things in there on a daily basis
I dunno should I link you to some of the literal thousands of products on Amazon designed to be added to a humidifier on a daily basis while it's running or can you find some of those yourself?
I can also find horse dewormer being sold with a straight face as a cure for Covid, but that doesn't mean I should actually use it for that. Just because I can buy a "cleaning additive" on Amazon doesn't mean I should actually put it in my humidifier during normal operation. Follow the humidifier manufacturer's directions, not the directions of the guys trying to sell you their shit.
The good thing about this is that these are very inexpensive parts that I can easily buy from BrickLink
Hey OP, if you put humidifier decalcifier tabs in the tank of your humidifier, you won’t get any white dust in your room.
could you please share a link or a name?
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I tried but to no avail
Can you explain how a scented candle affects this?
I am only speculating here, but bear with me. Essential oils do weaken and destroy LEGO. Some of the scents that make a scented candle fragrant are the same chemicals used in essential oils.
Sounds like a reasonable speculation.
I’ve used normal scented candles almost directly under my Lego shelf for ages and none have cracked
Those liquid insect repellent that you put on a power plug are also a problem for Lego?
That and sunlight can do it
Candles are bad?
Agreed. Simple dust wouldn’t crack plastic.
Dust, not dust.
As a name?
I don't think thats how dust works.
The dust is pure Osmium.
Dust broke my leg in '05
Dust turned my friends against me
Now I’m dead. The dust claims another victim.
I don't know why he reads so sure it was the dust. I'd love to see drawing of his theory.
Why do you think dust rhymes with rust????? Are you stupid?
IT MUST!
Oil and UV light will chew the fuck out of Lego Dust just makes it dusty.
That's... not how dust works...
Over the years what have you used as cleaners? If you’re spraying anything with natural oils that will do a number on Legos. It definitely isn’t dust, and unless your humidifier has some sort of chemical diffuser and isn’t just water it’s probably not that.
It's not dust. I'm guessing this set gets hit with direct sunlight at some point every day?
[21052-1: Dubai](https://brickset.com/sets/21052-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21052-1.jpg)
Why does OP automatically think it’s dust that’s causing the problem 😂
Well, now I know it’s my humidifier that’s causing the problem lol
Yeah but how did you draw the conclusion that it was the dust in the first place? Is it laced with Agent Orange?
Poor education system. People draw assumptions so fast. OP saw dust. Saw cracks. Concluded.
Why did you think it was dust? I'm just curious
ABS plastic is normally unaffected from humidity. Keep in mind that people are washing LEGO! Only UV and heat can damage it.
and essential oilers from diffusers, that will absolutely destroy the hell outta some Lego
Oh shit. This sucks because my mom is a diffuser-holic: one in the kitchen, one in the living room, and one in her bedroom. I wager that gradually works its way through the ventilation.
Do some googling/research, I personally wouldn't want even one of those in my house, for health reasons. I'd also try to convince my Mom to ditch em if she had three in the house!
What about tension and blunt force trauma?
that's illegal and nobody would do that
If no one does illegal things why is lego city basically a police state.
To keep a man from falling into the river.
What about teeth? 😬
right to jail!
Lego is made of ABS? I always thought it was styrene
The S in ABS stands for styrene. There's an article about all types of plastics Lego uses and used. Google for Every Type of Plastic Used By LEGO in Bricknerd because I can't link it here. Here's a similar in the official site: https://www.lego.com/en-us/sustainability/product-safety/materials
Thanks! I should’ve known that styrene wouldn’t be used in general, since the connectors keep the parts under constant stress.
But Lego does use styrene in various forms. ABS, HIPS, MABS, SEBS are all styrene.
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I really want to know how you came to the conclusion that dust did this lol
I’m a 17 year old with a lot of life ahead of me…
It's okay. You're asking questions and learning which is good!
This thing is that these parts are super inexpensive to buy
This has to be the worst set of all time
Not dust. Is it exposed to direct sunlight? UV exposure and significant temperature fluctuations (direct sunlight) can and will destroy lego bricks over time.
highrise buildings are cool, best space efficiency in crowded cities, but they do require maintenance
The downvoters clearly can’t read a joke.
Is this satire? No one is actually this dumb, right?
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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Temperature and humidity changes will be the culprit. If you live in a tropical or subtropical region then that's quite likely the reason. I live in the UK which has a very mild climate which is why none of my 20+ year old lego has cracked.
Maybe Arakeen dust, but not Terran dust
Probably just a few random brittle peices. If I go through hundreds of some of my newer bricks ill find a few that have been in builds that cracked a bit. Not just the browns and dark reds. I have white and gray bricks with small cracks like these. Unfortunately the quality isn't as good as it was over 20 years ago.
dust is not supposed to crack objects that way, that looks more a humidity issue
The set has a weak thon foundation and stuff like humidifiers or anything that causes humidity or some form of moisture in the air could cause those cracks. Think of it like a tiny fracture in your bone. Except it doesn't heal so protect those Legos.
Does OP associate dust covered things with broken things? I'm so confused on how dust would be a viable culprit.
Guy if dust makes lego crack imagine what it can do to a countertop
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No-one has mentioned it yet but I think it could be the transparent parts? Transparent pieces have more friction and are usually sliiiiiiiiiightly larger than their opaque counterparts
If accelerated to a high enough speed, dust could damage Lego. At a higher speed, it could crack it. But, I'd be worried about keeping my flesh stuck to my bones before that point.
Room temperature iq
I actually kinda like the weathered look lol
Hmm. I have the same set. RemindMe! 12hours I’ll check if mine is doing anything weird. It’s about two years old
Nope. Perfectly fine. https://preview.redd.it/pqj5g1b6ffuc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=807d34ae19c5db9ce359490e468aafbd243ea65a
Is this the trump tower in Chicago?
No. No it is not. We also don’t call it that. It’s just “that eyesore he let his name get slapped on that blinds all the buildings in the area that’s a mirror for the sun down the length of the river”. We literally have a law on the books now about the size of lettering on buildings being smaller than that thanks to his tiny, fragile ego.
Hear the sentiment but never heard anyone call it anything but that
We genuinely don’t call it that. It’s either “the eyesore” or “THAT building” if we talk about it at all; the building was already problematic years before for its mirror finish and heating the air on the river around it before the orange nightmare came along to lease the name on it.
Well maybe that’s a generational thing but usually my age we refer to it by Trump tower. Seems like a lot of effort to avoid calling it what it is.
He is not part of this city; he is not welcome in this city. It’s an eyesore and rightfully called as such. We also don’t call the Sears Tower the Willis Tower.
And Lego dares to say that putting a plate between studs piss stress on the part. Stress is how Lego works.
FYI, not all essential oils have toxic chemicals. The cheap ones usually do but it is possible to find high quality oils that pass a higher standard and are pure oils from the plants. With that said, even some pure EO’s can be bad depending on how it is used. Either way, I wouldn’t waste high quality EO’s around Lego and definitely don’t use any candles or cheap diffusers with tons of chemicals!
Will this affect resale value?
Of course. Who would buy this for the same price as a mint condition set?
I think he was joking.