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When the bricks are first made, they're dropped into large buckets. Then a miracle occurs. Then pieces are very acuratly sorted into polybags. How are the bricks sorted? It would almost have to be automated. If that's the case, could that process be (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Brian, There have been a few descriptions of how the bags are filled, some sort of machine with multiple circular conveyor belts that deliver the parts up to a mixing point (IIRC). The bags are then weight checked to look for errors. The new (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) More accurately, several 'small' miracles... Moulding machines drop pieces into storage containers. When the time comes to use a piece in a polybag, the storage container is dumped into a 'feeder' machine on a packing line. On to step 2: (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hi Brian, In lugnet.dear-lego, Brian Lanning writes: <snip ideas about packaging - other posts explained> (...) I agree this would be great, and probably possible (IMO). You're not the first to think about this, see Todd's ideas: (URL) think that (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) IMHO, a bulk order should be exactly that -- a _bulk_ order. So someone would go around the warehouse with a cart and a set of scales, and dump 1000 +- 10 bricks into the order crate directly from the storage crate. I think adding the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) sorting (...) (or (...) instructions (...) sets (...) for (...) I used to work in the distribution center for a major childrens book publisher. the way orders were done there would adapt itself well to bulk ordering for Lego. An order comes in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Carrying this one step further: just sell us a plain-brown-box[1] of 2x4 brown bricks. The same box that Lego stores them in. Weigh the box, tell us how much/many and we (or someone) can break up the contents. An easy solution for TLC/LD. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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