How can i straighten out a 16X32 plate?

[ACWWgal2011]

While at a Good will type store, i scored a sandwich bag of a lego and megablok mix and there was a 16X32 plate taped to the outside of the bag. The problem is that there is a slight curve to it as a result of the taping. Not enough to really cause a major problem but enough to be annoying. I tried placing a jar of peanut butter(nearly full) on one short side and a can of unopened v8 on the other with the plate on the table(underside parallel to the counter) to see if it'd make any difference in the curve and it really made no difference at all.

Also, does anyone know if there's any sort clone bricks that are of a chrome or shiny material or even if it's just a Lego part that i might of passed over? I found 4 very unusual pieces but couldn't locate them on the bricklink page. They are a shiny silver color. Shape is kind of like an oval cut in half the short way with a rectangle on the side with a perpendicular rectangle attached to that part. I had originally planned to upload an image online and post about it here but the plan fell though last second.

[streifen]

Get 2 thick heavy books. and place the baseplate in between them.

put for 2-3 days, all should be ok after that.

[Lego_Hero]

Get 2 thick heavy books. and place the baseplate in between them.

put for 2-3 days, all should be ok after that.

That may work in some cases, but I had the same problem once with some large MB plates and I left weight evenly distributed on them for months (I forgot about them in my closet) and they kept the bend after I took off the weight.

Try gently bending it the opposite way. This has worked for me.

Congrats on the find, by the way. I scored four early 2000's Bionicles at my local Salvation Army last month. Last year I found a disassembled minifig sitting on a pool table there. It was from Castle circa 1990's. I assembled it and the cashier told me to keep it b/c it probably had no value (to them, anyway).

[Sid Sidious]

While at a Good will type store, i scored a sandwich bag of a lego and megablok mix and there was a 16X32 plate taped to the outside of the bag. The problem is that there is a slight curve to it as a result of the taping. Not enough to really cause a major problem but enough to be annoying. I tried placing a jar of peanut butter(nearly full) on one short side and a can of unopened v8 on the other with the plate on the table(underside parallel to the counter) to see if it'd make any difference in the curve and it really made no difference at all.

Also, does anyone know if there's any sort clone bricks that are of a chrome or shiny material or even if it's just a Lego part that i might of passed over? I found 4 very unusual pieces but couldn't locate them on the bricklink page. They are a shiny silver color. Shape is kind of like an oval cut in half the short way with a rectangle on the side with a perpendicular rectangle attached to that part. I had originally planned to upload an image online and post about it here but the plan fell though last second.

I had a wing from Gorast get a little bent, so I put it under about 20 lbs. of books until I remembered about it again (maybe a month) and it was flat. I was at my local flea market-like place, and I saw a baggie of chrome silver building blocks. They were definitely some clone brand, I think MegaBloks. They looked like engine pieces, but I didn't look at them to closely.

[ACWWgal2011]

The v8 and peanut butter trick looks like it's working for me after all. I left it overnight and it's not as curved.

Forgot to mention something about the odd pieces. There are studs on the half of the football shape and the rectangle attached to a rectangle has the part like the underside of a lego brick.

Edited October 20, 2011 by ACWWgal2011

[Yucca Patrol]

Often times it doesn't even matter if it is curved since the bricks you place on it will bend it into its proper shape as you build on top of it.