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Re: Your Organizational Genius is Needed...
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:20:27 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ted Michon wrote:
> Pat-
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> I agree with most of the advice, though recommend against 2 of your conclusions:
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> 1.We sort by color after sorting by type.
> 2.We do not label containers (at least not transparent ones). We've been growing
> a sorted collection for 14 years, and have handled all sizes from 0 to the
> current 400,000 pieces. We started out putting colored CAD images of parts on
> labels on each drawer, but as the collection grew we needed to upsize drawers
> for mainstream parts (the smallest drawers continue to be useful for the
> exploding number of small elements and colors) and when we finally decided to
> replace all the labels, we found we couldn't do it: No solvent we tried would
> remove a label that had been in place 6-8 years without ruining the drawer. We
> ended up throwing out hundreds of drawers and decided NO MORE LABELS. It's not
> too bad: We have a column of 3 5x12 drawer cabinets for each color. The same
> part goes in the same position in each cabinet column. We keep basic
> (rectangular) bricks and plates in separate roll around cabinets, once cabinet
> per color. Overflow goes in see-through rectangular Rubbermaid containers in a
> floor stack or in ZIP Lock bags in two spare drawers at the bottom of each basic
> brick cabinet. We have a separate array of many hundre small drawers in 2 sizes
> for small pieces, which are often sorted horiztontally by color if we have
> enough of a particular type.
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> -Ted
I have to go with Ted on this. I've purchased a fair amount of bulk from Ebay
recently, and have be washing and sorting it. I'm mostly into trains, but I
wanted a lage buffer of misc parts to build with.
What started as 10 shoe boxes 2 months ago is now 20 plus 20 drawers. And I've
used about 10% in current builds. It's much easier to sort by color, so save
that for during the building proccess. I now sort by shape/type. If the
container gets more then 2/3rd full I use a larger container or split it into 2
containers. I sort by color last. One exeption is rare colors, I currently have
most of my tan, green and orange in thier own containers, and the really odd
stuff in another.
Also wide shallow containers are much more useful then tall narrow ones. I rarly
use the LEGO buckets, mostly for unsorted bulk. And the old LEGO breifcase is
just a pain to get parts out of. I'm slowly moving towards clear drawers.
I only hope that I can aproche the parts collection of the Michon's. But as I
do, I will use a similar approch.
Mat
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