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In lugnet.trains, John Gerlach writes:
> Some sorting advice: Don't try to do everything in one sort. Do a 'stage 1'
> and 'stage 2' sort. The stage 1 sort is very generic - all the plates here,
> all the roof bricks there, all the technic there. Then, you can go into those
> piles and sort them by piece/color. Otherwise, you end up trying to handle
> too many different pieces at once!
I think this is good advice for teardown or cleanup sorting. However I think
it's BAD advice for parting out sorting.
The kids and I sorted 74 soccer buses and 30 or so Siths over the course of
the week in the evenings last week and what we found to be a very good method
is to leverage the set bagging.
We dumped ALL of one kind of bag into one or more big blue (1200 piece) bins.
Then we took a pass through the bin (or through a medium green tray that we
poured 1/2 the bin into) just grabbing ONE piece out of it until it was hard
to find that piece. Switch to another piece. Keep switching till you get
around to the first piece again (it helps to have 20 or so of the sith trays
in front of you to throw pieces into when your hand gets filled up)
If you find that there are two pieces that you easily confuse for each other
(for example grey 2x4 bricks and grey 2x4 slopes), grab both at the same time,
one in each hand, and when one hand fills up, release into the tray.
What also worked well was dividing the parts we were sorting for into 1/2 and
I would go for some, and when the tray was panned out of those, pass it off to
Nik who would go for the rest, meanwhile we kept Taya busy opening boxes and
bags, sorting bags into different piles by type, unbagging, bagging up sorted
parts into new bags etc.
Using this method we were able to sort some of the full bins of medium small
parts in under 15 minutes, that's a parts sorting throughput of well over a
part a second (divided among 1 adult and 2 kids, 8 and 11) from still in set
bags to divided into separate trays ready to be bagged up.
> Just don't ask for one of those dark grey things you sometimes use to take
> stuff apart... (inside GMLTC joke!)
A sick breperator?
++Lar
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| (...) We've spent about 150 (?) man-hours dismantling and sorting so far, we've got 6 sections - of 14 - pretty much done. We build scenery mostly out of 2x2 and 2x4 bricks, so those are sorted by color into large bins. Smaller pieces we were (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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