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Subject: 
Re: Building exhaustion
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build
Date: 
Mon, 10 May 1999 16:15:05 GMT
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JSPROAT@GEOCITIES.ihatespamCOM
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Terry K wrote:
The only thing more headache-inducing than building them was taking them apart
and sorting all the pieces.  :-/

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...

Cheers,
- jsproat

1.  Except for Lightsaber Duel -- what were they thinking?!?

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"I prefer the term para-mental.  It keeps me out of the loony bin."



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Building exhaustion
 
(...) apart (...) Which reminds me, has anyone come up with a good way to store baseplates with varying contours? (3) (...) I would be curious to see scientific notation on this figure. ;) My drawers (so to speak) are also overflowing and I've kinda (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
  Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
  Re: Building exhaustion
 
(...) I reached that point about a year ago. I have a bunch of sets sitting in boxes because I don't have anywhere to put them if I build them - nor do I have storage space. (...) Ugh. By original set? Blech. No system is really perfect, I guess. I (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)

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  Re: Building exhaustion
 
(...) Probably not as hard as the Super Car was. Or the Big Rig Truck - the 1700+ piece set. That was an exhausting set. Dumping all those pieces out in not-so-little piles, and then having to search through them to find pieces. And both those sets (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)

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