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The topic of traveling with LEGOS came up on a previous thread, and I suggested
strapping bins together. But I didn't realise Larry P. was talking about plane
travel, not just across town. For plane travel I would go with the large
zip-lock bags - up to 2 gal. Then pile these in a duffel bag, or even the
corners of your suitcase. No wasted space from half empty bins, and you can
see exactly what you have. I must confess, I rarely let my kids travel with
legos, too easy to lose on the van floor. And I really couldn't deal with
losing that one essential special piece somewhere between here and there.
Make it a good day.
Louise
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Louise Belles writes:
> The topic of traveling with LEGOS came up on a previous thread, and I • suggested
> strapping bins together. But I didn't realise Larry P. was talking about • plane
> travel, not just across town. For plane travel I would go with the large
> zip-lock bags - up to 2 gal. Then pile these in a duffel bag, or even the
> corners of your suitcase.
Yup, that's what I've been doing. And for what to bring on the drive out here
to CO, I opened up two technic shuttles, a bigfoot, two robots, and some other
sets, dumped all the parts bags into one big 66 quart bin, (on top of 6 gal
worth of unsorted parts I had not yet taken care of) then filled up another 66
quart bin with pickings from my shoebox bins (kept sorted with new shoebox
bins I bought special). I didn't want to bring so much stuff that I had trouble
getting it back to Ada (like I did from Detroit, it filled an entire van that I
rented)... but I wanted enough to build happily.
Since I am about to aquire a collection from a CO native that will need some
parts replacement, I am concerned that I don't have enough assortment of stuff
with me to do it here.
But my question REALLY was around, if you had to put together a small "kit" of
parts to keep you amused while you were on an airplane, or overnight on a biz
trip to kill an hour or two, what would you take and how would you keep it
organized (keeping in mind that small for me does not necessarily equal small
for you... I had one 2 gal ziplok, plus an 8437 bought from Macfrugals the
first week I was here, built a chemical tanker and a hopper car (which are at
work now), but felt very hemmed in, possibility wise. Now I have more stuff.
bwhahaha)?
Would you take a treasured set? Or two? Or would you try to outfit a kit? Would
you stick to your favorite theme? (take pity on me, RR models are BIG compared
to town vehicles! )
-Lar
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I have a PLANO mid height tackle box with the contents of an 8062
Technic Universal set. I supplied the inventory to Dave Baum and
it should be in the LugNet inventory.
This is a great set that lets you do useful building with a minimal
parts count. Oh, and there's room left in the tackle box for a few
pneumatics if you can't leave home without it.
Next project...find out if the RCX kit fits into a deep PLANO tackle
box. Anyone?
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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So why am I sitting at a work station?
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> Louise Belles wrote:
> > The topic of traveling with LEGOS came up • Larry Pieniazek wrote:.... but I wanted enough to build happily.
> >
> But my question REALLY was around, if you had to put together a small "kit" of
> parts to keep you amused while you were on an airplane, or overnight on a biz
> trip to kill an hour or two, what would you take and how would you keep it
> organized (keeping in mind that small for me does not necessarily equal small
> for you... I had one 2 gal ziplok, plus an 8437 bought from Macfrugals the
> first week I was here, built a chemical tanker and a hopper car (which are at
> work now), but felt very hemmed in, possibility wise. Now I have more stuff.
> bwhahaha)?
>
> Would you take a treasured set? Or two? Or would you try to outfit a kit? • Would
> you stick to your favorite theme? (take pity on me, RR models are BIG compared
> to town vehicles! )
> Louise writes: I would take a set or 2 to build, and RR cars travel back
pretty well, on their side in the original tray, which also keeps the pieces
together while building. But I usually take a good mystery on a business trip,
I cann't remember the last time I had time to read at home. For long trips I
would even hit the used book store on my first day in town, and then return
them before I left.
The real question that comes to mind is how do you justify such a habit?
I'm getting raised eyebrows over expanding my tains by one!
Make it a good day.
Louise
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Louise Belles writes:
> The real question that comes to mind is how do you justify such a habit?
> I'm getting raised eyebrows over expanding my tains by one!
I guess it's just a matter of obsession, but not letting it stand in the way of
putting food on the table. I work hard, and my employer values that and takes
good care of me.
Besides, I could be blowing the money in bars or other ways, what else is there
to do when you're out of town and your free time comes in small slices rather
than big blocks?
++Lar
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Larry wrote:
> Besides, I could be blowing the money in bars or other ways, what else is • there
> to do when you're out of town and your free time comes in small slices rather
> than big blocks?
> Louise wrote:
> Hope I did not offend, I should have added a ;) to let you know it was
intended in a light hearted manner.
Good point, one I have used myself after many a trip to the book store.
> LEGOS are definately healthier than a lot of things people choose.
Should we have moved to an off-topic page?
Make it a good day.
Louise
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Louise Belles writes:
> Larry wrote:
> > Besides, I could be blowing the money in bars or other ways, what else is • there
> > to do when you're out of town and your free time comes in small slices rather
> > than big blocks?
A note, the ">" are inserted by the posting software to show what was quoted.
This is done by most software out there, including most newsreaders likely to
be used (for example, Netscape, which I use on RTL), as well as by the web
posting interface that some (including me) use here. You should leave those
alone for lines that you want to quote in your message.
you should NOT put ">" in front of your own words, nor do you need to say
things like
> > Louise wrote:
because most readers can tell (Note how the first line of this post says that,
the posting software put it there). (1)
> > Hope I did not offend, I should have added a ;) to let you know it was
> intended in a light hearted manner.
No offense taken. I think it was a good question and it's one that I ask myself
a fair bit too.
1 - Just sharing some information, not criticising. It takes a while to figure
this out for some folks. (2)
2 - Further, you don't need to apologise when people share info like this with
you (like you did last time) as we all know that we all were newbies once.
People that are trying to learn as opposed to being deliberately clueless or
lame or cute get a lot of forebearance, most especially here. (3)
3 - which is why I like "here" a lot.
++Lar
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> But my question REALLY was around, if you had to put together a small
> "kit" of
> parts to keep you amused while you were on an airplane, or overnight
> on a biz
> trip to kill an hour or two, what would you take and how would you
> keep it
> organized (keeping in mind that small for me does not necessarily
> equal small
> for you... I had one 2 gal ziplok, plus an 8437 bought from
> Macfrugals the
> first week I was here, built a chemical tanker and a hopper car (which
> are at
> work now), but felt very hemmed in, possibility wise. Now I have more
> stuff.
> bwhahaha)?
This probably runs counter to most of y'all but for filling small
numbers of short times to kill I think that a few bags of rectangular
blocks and some slopes would do. I like building in two modes. One is
to see what I can do with plain bricks and the other is to use as many
specialty pieces as is appropriate. I can amuse myself for hours with
just 2x2 slopes, inverse slopes, and 2x4s. OTOH, I certainly do
business travel less than you, and if it were common, I might change my
mind.
Sincerely,
Christopher Weeks
central Missouri, USA
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