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I have a PLANO mid height tackle box with the contents of an 8062 Technic Universal set. I supplied the inventory to Dave Baum and it should be in the LugNet inventory. This is a great set that lets you do useful building with a minimal parts count. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) suggested (...) plane (...) Yup, that's what I've been doing. And for what to bring on the drive out here to CO, I opened up two technic shuttles, a bigfoot, two robots, and some other sets, dumped all the parts bags into one big 66 quart bin, (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ok, I'll come clean on this one. When I needed clean LEGOS to build a candy dispenser (from the Klutz crazy LEGO Contraption book) I could not see putting time into scubbing those little babies. I just bought new ones. Now you know the truely (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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The topic of traveling with LEGOS came up on a previous thread, and I suggested strapping bins together. But I didn't realise Larry P. was talking about plane travel, not just across town. For plane travel I would go with the large zip-lock bags - (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Have any of your tried the Official LEGO Storage Ideas. I'm talking about the LEGO Storage Cabinets set number 759. This white cabinet had space for 4 slideable trays which were used to put in bricks in their own little sections. The trays were set (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Thomas Main wrote in message <3628B30F.BA5B0D1@ap...te.edu>... (...) I've checked out these containers. They have been available for years under a variety of trade names, and they almost universally suck. The problem is the same as with any opaque (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I was watching a movie on TV last night and saw a commercial for a new type of storage container. It was unique because it is a bunch of compartmentalized trays that "roll up" into a type of suitcase. Of course, my first thought was - that would be (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) It was a wise woman, and I have been saying it for years. I just never had group support before. Thank-you internet. Opps-I think I posted an empty reply just before this, sorry. I'll get used to navigating the net any day now. ======== Posted (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) legos."?) (...) My hat off to thee, milady! Please forgive an uncouth cad with not the wit to remove yon pedal appendage from his vocal orifice in a timely manner! As for myself, I don't like to carry any legos out of my house, because I am (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) have (...) I am not familiar with the suitcases you described. But when I need my Legos to travel I use the small storage bins which can be stacked. Each color to a bin. I can stack several on top of each other and strap them together with a (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Wise indeed. My only problem is that I want all my blocks whereever I am. I need to come up with a travel kit that has a good assortment of parts for what I want to do, and stays organized easily (1). I have a number of the TLG suitcases, as (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Weak (1). You should have said "Beer, Man!" ++Lar 1 - kind of like 3.2 beer, or Coors(tm). ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Maybe it sounds harsh, but I prefer separating my catalogs and instructions page by page, then insert them into separate nylon protectors (A4 or A5 depending on the size) and store them in 3 cm binders (A4 or A5 depending on the size). The extras (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What I have done in the past, with minimal "breakage", is to put the "construction" in the tub and let the luke warm water from the shower GENTLY flow over it. It does, however, take a lot longer to dry. And if you are storing it in the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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When my kids were small my husband got tired of stepping on LEGOS in the dark, claimed they hurt. (I always turn on a light, and avoid stepping on a cat, too.) He built them a 30 by 60 inch table with a laminated top and 1 inch quarter-round all (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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> Does anyone know the best way to clean legos? I have a better question: does anybody know the best way to clean an ALREADY ASSEMBLED lego set, short of disasembling it? I have very large buildings in my collection (1000s of pieces each) none of (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Hmm. Interesting. Never thought of draining them. Usually I shake the bigger drops out with my hand. (...) Definitely. Air-drying and cotton, the only ways to go. I use towels. Never used a blow-dryer for that though. Anyone ever tried (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I use Palmolive and warm water. One thing I also do is I have a large wire seive (basically like window screen only finer) that I place in a larger pot of water and soap. That makes draining them much easier. For drying, I air dry them. I have (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Beer. (sorry couldn't pass it up! :) No, but seriously, I just use plain water for 80% of cleaning, water with mild dish soap for 19%. Any other solvents or solutions can be hard on the plastic. Some folks say rubbing alcohol, but don't let it (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Well, it sounds like your LS likes to build more sets or subset MOC's rather than more supraset MOC's. Try this and see what she says: go ahead with the new storage, but let her arrange it. Probably not a good idea, but worth a try. If she doesn't (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Wow, I never would have thought there would be anything like this on the internet. Speaking of storage for the anal retentive, I have set up my own private building area in the study of my townhouse. I set up a system of about 10 chest of clear (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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James Beerman wrote in message ... (...) Check the RTL FAQ. Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for answers? Read the rec.toys.lego FAQ! (URL) in Deja News! (URL) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What makes the "archival quality" sheet protectors so special and why do the other kind mess up the catalogues? How would I recognize an archival quality sheet protector, anyway? Fredrik (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Does anyone know the best way to clean legos? ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Well, you could sit down with her and have a long drawn out discussion, both explaining their points of view, the pros and cons, and reach a mutual understanding like civilized adults. THEN you leave them in the original boxes and sleep on (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Sean M. Kenney wrote in message <361E1921.90293618@r...rs.edu>... (...) My trouble is the battle between organisation and accessibility. A don't se the point of trading "sorting through general bins" for "finding the right bin" time. So I have (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Hi, all, I've got a bit of a problem, and I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar one. My wife and I are both Lego fans, though I do more building than she does. All our sets are currently in their original boxes. I'd like to make one great (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Sean M. Kenney wrote in message <361E1921.90293618@r...rs.edu>... (...) I love those things. As soon as I get a real place to live I'm going to get a bunch of those. I used to use a fish tackle box when I was younger and had fewer pieces. Jesse (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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... I love those little storage cabinets you can get at hardware stores, the ones that are designed for nuts & bolts and things. I keep all of my non-rectangular plates & bricks in them: control sticks, 1x1 plates, minifig heads, cylnders, trees, (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Susan Hoover wrote in message <361D6313.17D44C0C@c...ve.com>... (...) some (...) If you get them sorted, I'm interested in trading the single page in-box catalogs. My current list is at www.wantree.com.au/~...lyers.html terry mason (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Make sure you use the "archival quality" sheet protectors. The other kind can mess up your stuff. I have about four 3" binders full of instructions, catalogs, etc. I have one binder with instructions for basic/freestyle/paradisa/etc., one with (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) on (...) have (...) Hmmm, I have various catalogs reaching back to 1973 (plus a 1970 dealers catalog), so I have about 25 years worth, but most of those years I only have one catalog for. I would never even think about a binder per year. Then (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I use the following: * Large rubbermaid stackable drawers for the big stuff - all of my basic bricks are in one - another serves as my unsorted container - the other two hold several compartment containers described below * Shoe box size containers, (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yup, Boston! --Todd (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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i hope you dont all look down at me for this... since i was about 12, i migrated my "tub" of legos in to a more organized sort. first i used tupperwares. then at about 14 i made the move to hardware store style cabinets. now i have a formidable row (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) todd, by any chance, have you or do you live in new england? i notice the unusual use of the word wicked...(i go to umass..im used to it) sorry for the off topic, but i had to comment. (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I've got to get a better handle on my sorting. I've got 7 Akro Mills containers (about 300 separate compartments), about 30 plastic "shoe boxes", about 30 cardboard shoe boxes, 6 large Technic trays, and about 400 to 500 baggies. Everything is (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Í forgot to mention the brand. They are made by Plano. Tom McDonald wrote in message <36190530.95FEEBBD@f...io.com>... (...) they (...) 2x8+ (...) jelly (...) partitions (...) bricks (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) It depends on the box for me. I try to save the bigger ones, thinking that "someday" I'll use them for storage. Some boxes are just so "cute", like Pizza To Go, that I can't collapse them or toss them. Black Thunder box is cool too, as it's (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Oh yeah. Those work well too. Got one of those I forgot about that holds my 2x8+ plates and hitch couplings. Also, after me and NLS devoured the contents, I confiscated a transparent jelly bean box that we received one year for Christmas. It (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Op een zekere dag, te weten Sun, 4 Oct 1998 02:39:34 GMT, klom Larry Andersen <neonglass@earthlink.net> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) I keep also all my boxes (since two years, actually), but in no particular order/system. I don't flatten (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yep. Same problem. I keep those bigger boxes with 3-D walls whole. Right now they are forming a "shelf" in the back of the closet to put other things on top of! Gary GaryLouie@EarthLink.Net (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) The big boxes, like 8480 and 8880's boxes, I use with the trays to store some of the bigger, less oft used pieces. Some of hte other bigger boxes, I use for the storage of all of the smaller boxes, which are flattened, and inserts thrown away. (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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For a long time I threw away all of the boxs. A few years ago I started saving them and quickly ran out of room. Within the last year I've reached a compromise with the problem. I currently flatten the boxes and save them that way. I have a problem (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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How are the box collectors dealing with storage? I've filled three closets with Lego boxes and they are starting to be a problem. I've decided to open up all the end flaps and store the boxes flat. I'm discarding all the internal packing material (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I got the see trough (clear) tackle boxes that open up at one end only they feature many compartments and run between $ 2 and $ 5 a piece. Shallow ones are good for small pieces while the deeper ones are good for the bigger parts (duh) for the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Plastic hardware sorting drawers work great for almost all technic parts (except beams of course) KL (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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I, too, use ziploc bags for sorting the axles. I keep all of a particular length in a bag, and all of the bags in a little storage container. (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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Nothing very elaborate for me. Just two small-parts cases, a couple of shoe boxes, plastic tubs, and various freestyle buckets sorted by 1xn. I also have some sets displayed up high in my daughter's room up. The day she discovers how to get to them, (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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