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Re: Need European Help: Sizes of LEGO manuals & catalogs
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Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:12:25 GMT
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"Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote in message
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> Is this the best system for storing instructions? Perhaps not. In a large
> ring binder, turning through the pockets to get the right one is a slow
> business as many of the instructions are large and heavy and hence do not
> glide easily over the rings. I think the absolute best storage/retrieval
> solution would be suspension files in a filing cabinet (using the
> double-capacity suspension files for the thicker items) and lying the few • A3
> items on the bottom of the drawers (under the suspended files), thus
> avoiding folding them in half. However, that is a rather more expensive
> option. As suspension files can have tabs attached to the top of them, you
> can easily devise some exciting system of labelling, colour-coding etc • that
> will make finding any set of instructions a breeze. However, while great • for
> storage/retrieval, a filing cabinet is not a good solution for transport. • If
> you want to take a bundle of instructions to somewhere else, the D-ring
> binder is much better. So it really does depend on what you want to do • with
> them.
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It's interesting that you mention this. I have been pondering the idea of
going from notebooks (which I have now) to hanging folders in plastic filing
boxes for a while. The Office Depot circular from last Sunday's paper
indicated that one of the filing boxes I was considering was on sale this
week (buy two, get one free - savings of about $10) so I went ahead and
bought three of them along with a box of hanging folders.
I bought legal sized folders for the very reason that many of the larger
LEGO instructions are A4 sized and will not fit in letter sized folders very
well. I will probably end up going with a combination of the plastic
sleeves I was using in notebooks and leaving the smaller instructions in
them, two or three to a page and then filing the sleeves. I will also use
both legal and letter sized folders, reserving one box for legal sized
things that don't fit well in letter sized folders.
I think three filing boxes will do me but I may need a fourth. Last night I
sorted and filed all of the LEGO Magazines and Shop at Home catalogs I have
decided to keep and filled one file box. I think it will be easier to find
things with my new system and more importantly, it will be easier to put
them away as opposed to simply putting them on top of the "to be put away"
pile that I have on a shelf now which currently stands about 10 inches tall.
Mike
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| (...) * (...) Most instructions for medium/large sets are A4. Most flubber inside the sets is also A4. Obviously the small sets may have smaller instructions. Occasionally you get a poster which is A3 (twice the size of A4) and the instructions for (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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