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Re: Yikes! - "Emergency 51" Collectors watch out how you display the set!

Before we go blaming Code 3 and all the others. This is just a fact of life. This hase been going on for the past 35-50 years with models. Maybe even longer. Old Matchobx models will lose the o-ring style wheels because the center hub actually shrinks. Wheels will crack and split. The more modern ones will melt to other plastics/acylics. I have lost a couple older models to this. I made the mistake of using some of that rubbery shelf liner to prevent rolling. OOPS.

From now on, only glass shelves in a case with UV reducing glass.

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