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Re: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 12 May 1999 20:21:40 GMT
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I sort mine by color and piece type. I'll give a little bit of a
run-down, so here goes.
(1) I have a box(shoebox size) for green(very few), yellow(few),
tan(fewer), gray, black plates. I stack the 1xY in an offset
manner, with the larger plates I also stack them in an offset
manner, and my 2x1s i make a ring of 5 and stack them
(2) another sb size box for white, red, & blue plates. same
organization technique
(3) Another box for the 1xY bricks of colors in (1)
(4) Box for the 1xY bricks of colors in (2)
(5) Box for 2xY bricks; color in (1)
(6) Box for 2xY bricks; color in (2)
(7) Box for flight & space specific items
(8) Box for car related items
(9) Box for slopes
(10) Box for large Technic parts(tires, bricks, plates)
(11) Box for Castle & Pirate parts(walls, trees)
(12) Peanut Butter jar for doors and windows
(13) PB jar fir trans canoppies, etc.
(14) PB jar bars, antenas, hoses
(15) PB jar town tires(totally full)
(16) PB jar panels incl. trans
(17) large PB or Mayonaise jar of transparent parts(radar,
anten., etc.
(18) Workshop-type organizer of clips, tiles, hinges, trans
plates&tiles, other small parts
(19) clear plastic organizer of smaller Technic parts
(20) fishing tackle box of minifigs & accessories
You'd be surprised how much stuff you can pack into some of
those containers, esp plates. It doesn't sound like much, but I do have a few
thousand pieces.
Ryan
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
On 5/10/99, at 4:33 PM, Scott Edward Sanburn wrote:
> For me, I have evolved from colors to actually sorting bricks out by
> their size/shape. I have eight 60 drawer shelving units, and multiple
> plastic variable size tackle box type containers. I do sort by color as
> well, but just for the BASIC bricks. I am in the middle of everything
> right now, sorting various parts I have gathered over the last few
> months, setting up my town, building SW sets, and re-doing most of my
> webpage because of my recently acquired digital camera. Its rough, but
> someone has to do it. Here is a link to my sorting page if you are
> interested:
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/sorting.html
>
> As always, LMKWYT!
>
> Scott Sanburn
>
> P.S. here is my main page, as well, since I am dropping webpage
> addresses:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3372/~legoguy712
>
> Jonathan wrote:
> >
> > In lugnet.starwars, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > >
> > > Which reminds me, I haven't seen a discussion on piece-sorting for a while.
> > >
> > > After buying all the SW sets (1), I have well over 1.8 jazillion pieces to
> > > sort, categorize, and cram into my soon-to-be-overflowing drawer system.
> > >
> > > Has this new theme caused anyone to re-think their organization system? I
> > > am seriously considering switching over to the sort-by-original-set
> > > method...
> >
> > Actually, I have thought about using the sort-by-original-set method, since
> > getting all the new SW sets. Before that, I used to sort by color, but with
> > all
> > the older space sets I have, I have two big drawers for black pieces. I had
> > white pieces in another drawer. I also divided red, blue, light gray, dk
> > gray,
> > transparent (of any color) and minifigs (and accessories) into seperate
> > drawers. This left one drawer for any of the colors that I had only a
> > handfull
> > of pieces for (i.e. tan, green, yellow, brown) but obviously, since the SW
> > sets, there are a lot more of these colors. So, any suggestions? How does
> > everyone sort their pieces?
> > -Jonathan
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