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(...) For most of my LEGO building career, I too worked on the floor. To avoid having parts scattered all over, I would put down a sheet or towel. Then picking things up is a simple matter of lifting all four corners. I sometimes would put the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) like a few plastic buckets of assorted sizes, 1 of those sorting chests, and a lot of sets spread through the house (I tick my mom off by having them everywhere) I've never seen someones lego so organized. Off course, Most of my sets (I'll (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Jeff J (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I keep thinking I should document my collection, but there's no easy way to get a good overall shot (well, ok, I do have a good overall shot of it after it was unloaded from the moving van, but it's kind of hard to appreciate a collection when (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Like a (non-lego) friend of mine told me when I said that there are people with much larger collections than me: "There's always a bigger fanatic" :) Adrian (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) You know, that's just what I was thinking about YOUR collection when I saw your place. :-) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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<snip> (...) LOL I currently have about 125,000 pieces in my collection. I look at how much room it takes up and I can't even imagine the storage problems of having 200,000 + pieces :-) I'll have to post some pics of my storage and build area, It's (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) snip (...) I use the blue tubs & a few buckets for extras) for separating bricks by color (5 tubs); the blue/red buckets for wings/ plates, slopes, wheels/tires, figs, windows/canopies/doors (9 buckets); glass malted milk & other jars for all (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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Glad you like the pics. You have a good setup there yourself. I used to build on the floor with my tubs all around me. I never dump parts out on the floor. Guess thats kinda weird though. Now I build at the table mostly and just grab parts out when (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Hehe, yeah. (...) Ya know, that's a badge of honor for me now. Bring it on! Adrian (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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"Adrian Drake" <tremor@apk.net> wrote in message news:H30v3D.86x@lugnet.com... (...) "Cute little collection" Bah. Freak. -Jon -- | The Shipyard - (URL) My Lego Creations - (URL) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I ought to take pictures of all my tubs. But I currently am using 155 of them, plus 19 tackle boxes and 8 parts cabinets. Maybe when I'm desperately bored I can document my sorting system :) Otherwise, cool stuff you got there. It's nice to (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) <Snip description of collection> (...) organizing my (rather small) collection. (URL) use these big, black storage cabinets. (URL) also use these: (URL) these: (URL) the not-needed parts go here: (URL) tend to dump a lot of my pieces on the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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Doh. Forgot the directory link: (URL) moderated. -Jon -- | The Shipyard - (URL) My Lego Creations - (URL) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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I've taken pictures of almost every part in my collection. This does not include my big container with instructions and baseplates, the small amount of new unsorted LEGO I have, my Bricklink store, my Tantive IV and Black Seas Barracuda and the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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Major pitfall, at least in the drawings - how do the drawers open? Looking at your drawings, the drawers pivot open from the front outside corner. The only way to get them to do so without hitting the center divider is to make each drawer a (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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Greetings, Just noodling an idea to make a portable table for building on the run. Actually, I wanted to have somthing with a large, collapsable area that made access to the bricks easy. This is an idea for a lego caddy. It consists of a rolling (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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Hi all, Ames, as part of its going out of business sale, has all plastic storage on clearance ar 40% off! They have lots of the IRIS and similar multi-drawer carts, etc. Roy (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Amazon has had a catalog-searching feature like this since the summer. I stumbled across it when trying to find Akro-logic and Infinite Divider cases. I really like Amazon's implementation: your search string is highlighted on the scanned (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.storage)
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(...) This is a setup that looks like it would look "cooler" with labels like the Onyx labels (URL) that might actually be less user-friendly than the current system, which has great simplicity (especially if, as appears to be the case, rows are of (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.storage)
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