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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) 1782 (...) Blasted mainlanders. We don't even have that set out here. Had to get one shipped in. Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for answers? Read the rec.toys.lego FAQ! (URL) in Deja News! (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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mild mannered Thomas Main wrote: >SNIP< (...) Is it just me or does this solution sound a little TOO much like something out of a superhero comic book? Bruce Wayne's alter ego has a full crime lab hidden in the trunk of his car—Thomas has a LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Seedling starter trays work great for sorting and they are cheap too. I picked some up at a garage sale that are 4 compartments long x 7 compartments wide that are almost sturdy enough for a permanent storage solution except they are too wobbly to (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) <snip> (...) My NLS and I live in a two bedroom apartment. My dad gave us his bedroom furniture when he moved so we have cabinets with glass doors. It really cuts down the dust. The two big cabinet fits two big baseplates rather nicely, and (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Bingo. ++Lar (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Loft-beds are also useful for providing large amounts of storage space. Not a lot of talent is required to build them, just make sure they are sturdy! But lofts do require a tolerant attitude from anyone involved. When we lived in an apartment (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Very creative use of space! I espesially like the building hieght restrictions. I actually gave up regular 'O' sacle trains because the premenent track required so much space. Now we set up the LEGO train on thin masonite boards that are cut (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) It's only because my son like Lego so much that we have a Lego room, his bedroom. All other rooms in the house are designated non-Lego. Just keep aquiring Lego, and sooner or later you'll move to somewhere where the prices of houses are (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) I wonder if any of you have thought about bunk beds? I know at least one person who uses a bunk bed, sleeps above and uses the bottom for his layout and the under bed for storage. It may not be an ideal situation unless you're (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I'd like to share Ed's grumbling :) I also live in an apartment and my Lego space is relegated to some shelves behind a door and a little closet space. I think I've made the most of this space, though. I have 9 20" x 30" felt covered boards (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I don't know about Larry, but the Divers set in the Los Angeles area is 1782 Discovery Station. I bought one for $24.49 before tax. Alan (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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No offense to anyone in particular, but you people with garages, attics, basements, rec rooms and room for homemade tables and 8x10 set-ups make me ill. I have to build anything/everything on a 3x5 table and ususally have to deconstruct well before (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) My son and me just use the floor. Plenty of space and the pieces can't fall down. We have some small wooden drawer cabinets with all the peices on the floor along a wall, and the drawers mostly end up between us on the floor. Once in a while, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Heh heh, I feel pretty weird now -- I have Zip-Loc bags on the *outside* of some of my boxes -- so that when I move them, I don't scratch them against each other. I do build and play with all my pieces, but I want the artwork on the boxes to (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Maybe I missed something--which Divers sets are you talking about? Steve (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) UK (...) It's not in the 1998 Service Brochure. Good 'ol Busy-Bee has the red tray and the storage cabinet in stock. 757 Red Storage Cabinet £5.99 759 Wooden Self Assembly Storage Cabinet (notrays inc.) £19.99 Mention me Simon Denscombe if you (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Hmm... well we can hope that if there's a restock maybe Costco will have GCJ too. I'd get more of those! As for getting a BJ's card I think two of these is enough. Wish Sam's carried better toys, I like them better overall. ++Lar ======== (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@NOSPAM.ctp.com> wrote (...) Trust him. It is. For small amounts having "misc" bins works well, but I use a threshold of about 2x4x2" of small parts before I split them out. This is because with Technic I find it easier to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Duane Hess <DNJHESS@ZDNETMAIL.COM> wrote (...) I use home made desks - 2.4x0.8m - a bit over an arm span long, and as deep as I can comfortably reach while seated. Two of those at right angles lets me have the PC on one with a model play area one (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I have a BJ's and now Costco. I got the Costco second, and got it because I used to live in CA and really liked them. As for the 6079s, When I first saw these at Costco, I got the last 2 left. Since then the selection dwindled rapidly until (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Hey, I'm not a hacker!..I only deleted some portion of the url..:-) Selçuk (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Look so nice, and convenient too. Is it from 1998 service catalog?...I thought that all the service catalogs in Europe should be same (since there is also a UK flag besides others in my 1998 service flyer) Are they still available, and if it is, How (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I have managed to scan and upload the pictures of LEGO's idea of storage. It is a picture from a UK Service Brochure. (URL) 60 ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 24-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) ask (...) The lugnet.loc.co newsgroup hierarchy. but maybe I'm hallucinating. I appreciate your offer, really I do, but I didn't think it made sense to do this by mail. I'm in CO and probably won't be in WA for some time. (...) Worth looking (...) (26 years ago, 24-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What is the .co group? If I'd seen, I would have offered. (...) But then what would you do if they got more Lego sets in? I'll agree that the ethical problem exists here. I would not turn around and get a full refund because you've already (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Adam Howard wrote in message <362FEBE4.A5DAE522@m...ne.net>... (...) really like it (...) stuff (...) bought (...) my best (...) The room (...) would be (...) move over (...) parts bins. (...) I wonder how much a room like that would cost. I mean (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I bought a solid wood kitchen table from SAM's. It is about 3'x5'. I really like it because it gives me a lot of room to work on. I can also store a lot of stuff underneath. I then got a small put-it-together-yourself desk from Target, bought some (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) 40 bucks. How much is the least I could get this set for elsewhere? I got 4 copies of it, 2 of the sharks and 2 of the Dark forest set. I also got 100 bucks worth of food and a laser pointer for having fun after dark (1). (...) No one else on (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) So THAT's why my collection is so big! I sort into Sterilite shoe boxes (1) and no matter how hard I try, I haven't yet filled a shoe box with Technic 1x1 beams. :-) OR silver bricks. :-) :-) Gotta buy more sets, I guess. (...) Finally, a (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I got a dedicated room in the garage for something other than Lego, however it seems Lego is taking over. After careful review of my wife's kitchen, were she spend lots of time it seemed like the right heigth etc etc. So one day I went to Home Depot (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I will be moving within the next couple of months and would like to dedicate all or part of a room strictly to my LEGOs. I am currently using an old antique desk for building models and holding my storage bins. I can just see my mom cringe everytime (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) You spent how much to save how much? *confused* Why didn't you just get someone to buy some sets for you and send them to you? SOme of us have our own Costco cards for other reasons. Sarah Heacock Sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) The situation you describe needn't be the case. You mention two problems. If empty bin-space is a problem, you are suffering from one of two difficulties. Bins too large for your collection. Or a collection too small for your bins (see my (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I hear you. My kids are really bad about building from sorted bins. For about a week after I've done major sorting, they'll come up with creations made from all 1xN plates, or only round pieces. Thought about sorting by colors vs sorting by (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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What I have done so far with the pieces I have sorted is: 1. Put all pieces which currently have a classification in my system in one pile and all unclassified parts in another. 2. Sort all of the classified pieces into three catagories a) bricks b) (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What works best for me is to use lots of Chinese carry-out soup containers and paper plates. I set up 10-20 soup containers (depending on the size of the set). I sort by brick size and element category (windows, tools, plants, etc.). I sort on (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yes, but I feel that using too many sorting bins is a waste of space because there's always going to be a lot of bins that are nearly empty. And if you have too many bins, you cannot stack them all in front of you when building, so you need to (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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> Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp > (myself among the adherents) that feels that sorting by color > is a total waste of time (except for green :-)). Far more > important to sort by size and type. Yes, yes, we've all (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp (myself among the adherents) that feels that sorting by color is a total waste of time (except for green :-)). Far more important to sort by size and type. When rooting for a part, (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) eliminating the (...) This is the key insight to sorting fast, I think. When I am trying to digest a big set (or sets) I look through the bags before opening, looking for bags that are similar (or exactly the same for multiple set copies). (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) about doing (...) For Technic sets, I work on a big table, and use a "coordinate system" of piles of same-type pieces. (When building, I value form over aesthetics, so all colors of a given part go in the same piles.) x1 x2 x3 x4 x6 x8 x10 x12 (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) doing (...) way. My current method is as follows: followed by 12 sentences of detailed instructions. I've been married to an engineer for 20 years now, and feel compelled to offer you some advice on sorting (knowing the engineer type so well). (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) When faced with that problem, i have tried several ways to speed up the sorting process. As an engineer type person, i will not be satisfied untill i find the fasted way. My current method is as follows: (note: i use hardware style bins for (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) This probably runs counter to most of y'all but for filling small numbers of short times to kill I think that a few bags of rectangular blocks and some slopes would do. I like building in two modes. One is to see what I can do with plain (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Does anyone have a method to make sorting pieces easier? I have several tubs of Legos which still need to be sorted, but am feeling a bit lazy about doing it. Duane ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) A note, the ">" are inserted by the posting software to show what was quoted. This is done by most software out there, including most newsreaders likely to be used (for example, Netscape, which I use on RTL), as well as by the web posting (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) there (...) intended in a light hearted manner. Good point, one I have used myself after many a trip to the book store. (...) Should we have moved to an off-topic page? Make it a good day. Louise ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I guess it's just a matter of obsession, but not letting it stand in the way of putting food on the table. I work hard, and my employer values that and takes good care of me. Besides, I could be blowing the money in bars or other ways, what (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Would (...) pretty well, on their side in the original tray, which also keeps the pieces together while building. But I usually take a good mystery on a business trip, I cann't remember the last time I had time to read at home. For long trips (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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QVC has them as well, if you go to qvc.com and do a search in the description field for "roly kit" they show up. They are about $16 to $40 depending on which one you get. I don't know if the 800# on the commercial has them any less expensive. We use (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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