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In lugnet.storage, David Koudys wrote:
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In lugnet.storage, Jeff Van Winden wrote:
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Ben
P.s.: my Lego room:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=451543&n=47
(2 years old and too long) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La2Avnu0vwY
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for posting your Lego Room pics here, I saw the images of your under
table storage carts, and i love the idea of them.
I am also using Ikea’s Ivar Shelving for my Lego room, but I saw this image,
and I have never seen a Double wide shelf that looks like your building
surface.. is it a custome built shelf?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4796384
Here are some images of my Lego room (also 1-2 years old..)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffvw/sets/72157628443043909/
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My bess guestimate, Jeff vW has at least twice the collection I have. That’s
my best guess just by looking at the pics.
Dave K
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Unfortunatly, most of my basic brick bins are empty (at least the 2 x 4 bins as
the bricks are all being used as filler under our many displays..
Jeff VW
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In lugnet.storage, Jeff Van Winden wrote:
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Ben
P.s.: my Lego room:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=451543&n=47
(2 years old and too long) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La2Avnu0vwY
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for posting your Lego Room pics here, I saw the images of your under
table storage carts, and i love the idea of them.
I am also using Ikea’s Ivar Shelving for my Lego room, but I saw this image,
and I have never seen a Double wide shelf that looks like your building
surface.. is it a custome built shelf?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4796384
Here are some images of my Lego room (also 1-2 years old..)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffvw/sets/72157628443043909/
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My bess guestimate, Jeff vW has at least twice the collection I have. That’s my
best guess just by looking at the pics.
Dave K
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Ben
P.s.: my Lego room:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=451543&n=47
(2 years old and too long) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La2Avnu0vwY
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Hi Ben,
Thanks for posting your Lego Room pics here, I saw the images of your under
table storage carts, and i love the idea of them.
I am also using Ikea’s Ivar Shelving for my Lego room, but I saw this image, and
I have never seen a Double wide shelf that looks like your building surface.. is
it a custome built shelf?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4796384
Here are some images of my Lego room (also 1-2 years old..)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffvw/sets/72157628443043909/
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In lugnet.storage, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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In lugnet.storage, David Koudys wrote:
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In lugnet.storage, Jeffrey Findley wrote:
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In lugnet.storage, David Koudys wrote:
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I do appreciate flourescent tubes, but I might have to get a more
‘natural’ lighting method because the greys/bleys blend together in
flourescent lighting (at least for me anyway)
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I have as yet to try Retr0brite but it’s been a plan for a while. Sooner or
later I’ll do it and let you know if it reverses the UV damage.
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Hi Dave,
thanks for posting your LEGO-room here at Lugnet! I like that as a very
compact storage and building room. What happens with models? All in diplay
around your house? Another storage area for sets and MOCs?
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If my MOCs aren’t on top of the shelving, then they’re in boxes for the next
show. No display room, and I realized a long time ago that they just get dusty
and broken on display (especially now with a 3 yr old around)
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On topic of de-coloring:
UV-damages are done and can not be reversed, I guess.
But some of the tanning is in fact not a UV-cause. And I never heard that
“fluorescent tubes” cause stronger damage than other lights. Halogen lamps
send out harsh UV. That might be an issue.
On the other hand there is a common trick to whiten tanned (white) bricks:
put them (especially behind window panes) into the sunlight for a while.
They actually become pretty white again. If you disbelieve: try with a cheap
collection of old 1x2 bricks.... It actually works! Much better, safer and
milder than hydrogen peroxide containing detergents.
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It’s not really a concern at this point--I have enuf, and sometimes I like the
off colour (i.e. Mike Shiel’s hockey arena), but I did want to try it. I’ll try
your idea above first, though.
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BTW: some chemical experts at 1000steine have claimed, that some volatile
contents of wood and brown cardboard lead to decolouring. So storing your
bricks in transparent plastic boxes (but in quite dark areas) is the best way
to go. So you did well on that.
Best Regards,
Ben
P.s.: my Lego room:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=451543&n=47
(2 years old and too long) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La2Avnu0vwY
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Love the vid, and not just because you have Scott Joplin playing in the
background ;)
Thanks Ben!
Have a good one
Dave K
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In lugnet.storage, David Koudys wrote:
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In lugnet.storage, Jeffrey Findley wrote:
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In lugnet.storage, David Koudys wrote:
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I do appreciate flourescent tubes, but I might have to get a more ‘natural’
lighting method because the greys/bleys blend together in flourescent
lighting (at least for me anyway)
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I have as yet to try Retr0brite but it’s been a plan for a while. Sooner or
later I’ll do it and let you know if it reverses the UV damage.
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Hi Dave,
thanks for posting your LEGO-room here at Lugnet! I like that as a very compact
storage and building room. What happens with models? All in diplay around your
house? Another storage area for sets and MOCs?
****
On topic of de-coloring:
UV-damages are done and can not be reversed, I guess.
But some of the tanning is in fact not a UV-cause. And I never heard that
“fluorescent tubes” cause stronger damage than other lights. Halogen lamps send
out harsh UV. That might be an issue.
On the other hand there is a common trick to whiten tanned (white) bricks: put
them (especially behind window panes) into the sunlight for a while. They
actually become pretty white again. If you disbelieve: try with a cheap
collection of old 1x2 bricks.... It actually works! Much better, safer and
milder than hydrogen peroxide containing detergents.
BTW: some chemical experts at 1000steine have claimed, that some volatile
contents of wood and brown cardboard lead to decolouring. So storing your bricks
in transparent plastic boxes (but in quite dark areas) is the best way to go. So
you did well on that.
Best Regards,
Ben
P.s.: my Lego room:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=451543&n=47
(2 years old and too long) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La2Avnu0vwY
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In lugnet.org.ca.obb, David Koudys wrote:
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One of the thoughts was, ‘Hey, if Lar++ (1) ever visits our humble abode for
a cuppa LEGO, I’d better be able to easily find what he requested or I’d look
the fool!’
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Mmmkay! If anyone ever visited my place they’d be appalled at how disorganized
it is.
Mostly I’m just in awe of how it’s such a totally over the top use of Visio. :)
(which I have used in the past for trying to decide what buildings go where)
FUT storage
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In lugnet.storage, Jeffrey Findley wrote:
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In lugnet.storage, David Koudys wrote:
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I do appreciate flourescent tubes, but I might have to get a more ‘natural’
lighting method because the greys/bleys blend together in flourescent
lighting (at least for me anyway)
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I really like the layout of the Lego room. Very well organized.
One comment on flourescent lighting... I had some Lego sets on display at
work many years ago. I decided to take them home when I noticed that the
flourescent lighting in the office had turned the outside of the white bricks
a faint yellow color. I was not a happy camper.
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My 6990 monorail was set up for may years in the basement under florescent
lights. Yeah, some of the white is pretty much tan in colour now. It’s very
odd, though--some white pieces didn’t turn colour at all, whilst some went
completely tan in colour. The 2x8 plates with the tiles on top have tan/white
combos where the tiles blocked the light--I can pretty much build the 6990 today
using the original white pieces because it’s so blatantly obvious which ones are
the original white pieces.
Also, the sun’ll do it to the whites as well--leave your MOC in front of a
window for a few months and see...
I have as yet to try Retr0brite but it’s been a plan for a while. Sooner or
later I’ll do it and let you know if it reverses the UV damage.
Dave K
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In lugnet.storage, David Koudys wrote:
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I do appreciate flourescent tubes, but I might have to get a more ‘natural’
lighting method because the greys/bleys blend together in flourescent
lighting (at least for me anyway)
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I really like the layout of the Lego room. Very well organized.
One comment on flourescent lighting... I had some Lego sets on display at work
many years ago. I decided to take them home when I noticed that the flourescent
lighting in the office had turned the outside of the white bricks a faint yellow
color. I was not a happy camper.
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In lugnet.storage, David Gregory wrote:
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Very nice. I didn’t see any pics that showed the ceiling, so I must ask,
what kind of lighting do you have?
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The original basement room used recessed lighting. I separated the 4 POTS that
are now in the LEGO room from the rest of the basement and threw a separate
switch on them. At the same time I was able to add plugs along the new wall.
I found a 4’ flourescent housing at a garage sale last summer for 50 cents and
mounted it right above my work area, which adds additional lighting to where I
do most of my work.
There are shadows at points when I’m retrieving stuff from the bins, but thus
far that hasn’t really impacted finding things--usually I bring the entire bin
to the work area where it’s well lit.
Going forward I may add lighting to the room but for now, is ok.
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I recently organized my LEGO building room. My parts bins are quite
different than yours, but their placement along the perimeter of the wall is
very similar. The problem I have with my lighting is that I have a single
dome light fixture in the center of the ceiling. Anywhere I stand in the
room to get parts out of a bin, I create a shadow on what I’m looking at.
(The building table is in the middle of the room, so I have good lighting
when actually building something.)
I plan on having 2 sets of fluorescent
lights (each set/fixture uses two 4’ 32 watt lights) installed soon; one near
each end of the ceiling. Hopefully this will give me the kind of light I
want.
David Gregory
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I do appreciate flourescent tubes, but I might have to get a more ‘natural’
lighting method because the greys/bleys blend together in flourescent lighting
(at least for me anyway)
Thanks for checking!
Dave K
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Very nice. I didn’t see any pics that showed the ceiling, so I must ask, what
kind of lighting do you have?
I recently organized my LEGO building room. My parts bins are quite different
than yours, but their placement along the perimeter of the wall is very similar.
The problem I have with my lighting is that I have a single dome light fixture
in the center of the ceiling. Anywhere I stand in the room to get parts out of
a bin, I create a shadow on what I’m looking at. (The building table is in the
middle of the room, so I have good lighting when actually building something.)
I plan on having 2 sets of fluorescent lights (each set/fixture uses two 4’ 32
watt lights) installed soon; one near each end of the ceiling. Hopefully this
will give me the kind of light I want.
David Gregory
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