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Our local Home Depot (Albany, NY, USA) has a good bargain for Lego storage boxes: Tuff 'Tainer by Flambeau Products Corp, Middlefield Ohio, 44062, 800-232-3474. These come in two sizes. I like the larger of the two. (Part #5004)The outside (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: BOX-4-BLOX
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(...) Sure we have; you just missed it. (2 URLs) (which contains a link to an RTL article with more info) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I think I want to try a set just for the heck of it. The site seems basically a brochure, do you have a US distributor or a way to order a set? (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Have just looked at past postings and with all the hassles involved with sorting and storing Lego blocks, I can't believe nobody has ever mentioned the BOX-4-BLOX. Take a look at www.box-4-blox.erg.co.nz and let us know what you think. (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Lego storage with good availability in the UK
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Conrad Venn (<FrIwCK.Cro@lugnet.com>) wrote at 16:26:44 (...) ZAG stuff is really good. I use various sizes of drawers for everything from 2x4s to Technic pins to propellers. You can get hold of ZAG storage from B&Q, Do It All & (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.storage)
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I recently found some nice flat stackable boxes in Robert Dyas. The Organiser-160 has 14 compartments of various sizes (not adjustable), and I've successfully put all of my Technic/Mindstorms stuff into a bunch of them - all except for the big (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.storage)
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| | K-Mart Sale on Akro Mills Storage Kabinets
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K-Mart on Nimitz, HI has 50% off on all storage cabinets including a 60-drawer as seen here: (URL) price is $9.99. You might want to check your local K-Mart. I picked up 2 of them, they're an excellent way to organize parts. D. (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Ouch! Beware of "Glass"!
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(...) show (...) I've been thinking about your problem for a couple of weeks and have a suggestion. I noticed at a local hobby and craft store that they carry a line of variously-sized Ziploc-style plastic bags. There should be enough sizes so that (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Storage for the storage
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(...) Plastic file crates that hold legal size file folders will hold all Plano 37xx storage boxes and probably the comparably sized TackleLogic boxes. The crates stack securely on top of each other by nesting the grooved bottom into a slotted top (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Instructions Storage
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(...) Only because some clutz couldn't convert. Anyway, the lander wasn't lost - it was gobbled up by a giant, intelligent floating martian gas cloud which doubling in size every four minutes. Jon (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Instructions Storage
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(...) It also lost the mars lander.... Troy (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Don't knock the imperial measurement system - it put man on the Moon! If NASA had used metric at the time, it would surely have put them off going at all, I mean "400,000,000,000mm"* sounds a lot further away than "239,000 miles"* *All (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Why, us silly americans (as in people from the USA) still use a non-metric system of measurements! Just add it to the list of reasons why the rest of the world doesn't like us.... :) Troy (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Instructions Storage
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(...) Nope, A6 to A0 but if you can create your own AX where X goes to infinity..:-) A0 is the biggest one (equals 16 A4s in area). Since A1 is half of the A0 and A2 is half of the A1 and so on, (short side of A0 is long side of A1 and half of the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:Fr6sMB.I7w@lugnet.com... [ ...snipped ...] (...) them (...) Metric sheets sizes go from A4 - A1 from smallest to largest. A4 is approximately the same size as a standard US letter size (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Paulo Caparica Junior wrote in message <38C6F950.6BA9E203@n...com.br>... (...) after about (...) 10,000 (...) methods (...) binder (...) too long (...) doing (...) And I just measured my 5561 instructions which happen to be sitting right next to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | RE: Storage for the storage
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(...) I have found that the Plano 3700 boxes fit neatly inside cardboard archive file boxes. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ---...--- (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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I use Plano and TackleLogic tackle boxes to store my Lego Technic pieces. Since I have small children, I am always putting them away and getting them out, often carrying them up and down stairs, etc. And, I have (fortunately) reached a point where I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) They are European, they are ISO paper sizes. They are also used in Brazil, and Brazil is in America... (...) A4 is 210 mm x 297 mm (...) Paulo (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Storag/Sorting system
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(...) I have a Box-4-Blox and I use it frequently. It is useful for a rough separation of big pieces from tiny pieces, but most of the pieces end up on the second-from-bottom level. I use the B4B to store unsorted pieces until I can get around to (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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