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(...) I have it sorted mostly like that, I did a big sort between xmas and new year. I have my lego kept in my 6 roboriders canisters, a 2 litre icecream tub (for my 8448 wheels) a 2 tray tackle box for parts like my large collection of angle beams (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Heh. Very good! Mine slightly diverges, mostly because I am so full of what the SubGenius call "slack" (to the rest of you, that means I'm "lazy"). I bought many, many sets over the years. After buying a set, I would always put it together, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) begin (...) [big snip] Thanks a lot Remy for sharing this story with us. I did enjoy it, being myself currently at stage 17 now I know what to expect from the future... :-) Ciao Mario Lego web page: (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) ...You begin trading in all of your other worldly possesions, lose your job, lose your wife, kids, and life...your family members disown you, you begin to drool and froth at the mouth and spend the rest of your days in a mental institution, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Here's a description of an evolution of lego collection sorting. It might be yours, at least in parts. It's certainly been mine. I might turn this into an essay some day, but for now it will have to begin life as a series of unsupported claims. If (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage) !!
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Here in Binghamton NY we have a store called Big Lots (its owned by Kay Bee). Tucked in a dark corner of the store I found about 50, 3500 - 3packs, all for $3.99. Thinking this was a good deal I got one set to use as switch outs on my 1258. When it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.storage)
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(...) For those Americans (and possibly others) who may not have much knowledge of chemistry, Jan-Albert is talking about bleach (though my bottle of bleach is only a 5% solution, not the 30% Jan-Albert mentions - which probably explains why Cary (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Well after testing this a couple of times (and thanks to Klaas Meijaard for bringing it to my attention) here's what I found to be an excellent way to get those yellowed white parts to look as new again... A chloride solution (I used a product (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yeah, that's a much smarter suggestion. Especially given the fact that the person looking for the instructions would essentially want to get them for free (and why not - they're not worth anything to me, other than as packing material - which (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Sorry, I've done that before - even held onto them and put them up for silly low prices like a nickel or something (plus shipping) and 99.9% of the time they just sit there. Every once in a while I will see that someone is looking for a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Actually, what might be better is if you post a list of the instructions you're most looking for (in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade of course). Many of us may have instructions we're willing to part with (so far, I have only thrown out (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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Shred them??? I would gladly pay the shipping for instructions for sets that I don't already own (which is still quite a few despite recent Lego binges). Send me an e-mail of which instructions you have many of and maybe we can make a deal. Fred (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) My one real new years resolution is to sort the hundreds of sets I've acquired over the last year. I haven't found time to sort anything this past year. it is true; my collection has grown to fill the volume of available space, the whole (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ahhh... then it has begun :-) Somewhat like a computer program Lego seems to grow to fill all available space forcing you to get more storage. Sorting this Lego can be a joy or a chore or simply not done at all. Personally I enjoy sorting (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Ooohh no there are too many to fit!! -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. the fully anal and out of space AGAIN newbie simple sorter for non Technic "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message news:NEBBIJADEJHLFJD...mts.com... (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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Sorry all but I just throw 'em away and don't give it a second thought. Now if we were talking about Transformers, that would be a different story. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who buys Lego for building and creating not for collecting (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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"Jeremy Dullard" <jemgnu@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G6Dsvw.D2v@lugnet.com... (...) I'm assuming that this part is meant tongue in cheek as all these would probably be worth a lot if you left them under your bed for a significant period of (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ummm, Kenneth, once you start labelling the compartments, your status is automatically upgraded to fully-anal Technic sorter :-) I'm grinning, because you haven't hit the point yet where the compartments you labelled are too small to hold the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) The only boxes I keep are for the sets I plan on keeping completely separate from my parts bins, which is a very small percentage of my collection and a miniscule percentage of the sets I buy. I throw out the rest. I used to use them to ship (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) The problem is that when you buy as many sets as I do you don't have space for all the boxes, and besides, from what I have seen, an older set will sell for at least as much by selling it in parts lots as by selling it whole. Of course some (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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