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"Wayne R Hussey" <eskimo2@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:G6v1rF.F8H@lugnet.com... (...) 10 (...) Totally agree here! Although I must admit my own story skips completely random around Remy's. I've never sorted by set or by color. A factor (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yea, that's what my system is, though I use Hefty brand resealable bags (note that it's Ziploc without a K and that's a particular brand's trademark). (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I think this is were subcontainers, or even ziplock bags, can be very handy. I can't imagine having separate compartments for each color of 1x2 bricks, but I can imagine having a number of bags in a single container, each bag having a single (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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My friend put all the yellow 1x bricks into 12x1x10 walls in preparation for a new project.Oh, and the 2x4 into plus-sign shaped 4x4x10 pillars. The project never got built, but I love those walls. They are great for scoping out what a mountain side (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) It's been a long time since I've seen any discussion about this, and I don't remember the conclusion. Do you do more damage to bricks keeping them built in walls/cubes/piles which keeps them "flexed" or keeping them loose which lets them get (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) One of the parameters of my growing storage dillema is how to keep pieces sufficiently separated such that scratching and scarring is kept to an absolute minimum when I have to rummage around. My experience is that, in the long run, if one has (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I just read the lugnet.trains group and try to read the highlighs. Your posting became highlighted, so I found it at last... (never been in this corner of Lugnet before) (...) If I should reach step 26 and still be able to have time for (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) As a child, I don't think we (me and my sisters) sorted the LEGO at all, or at least not into more than a few bins (I just remembered my dad built a box with drawers and dividers which might have been for the LEGO), but then we didn't have all (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I am still undecided about comingling pieces. I have mixed some smaller elements together in Akro but have kept apart larger bricks. A 20 year old yellowing white brick is in stark contrast to something from 3033. (...) I think it is for (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Glad you enjoyed it! No one replied for a while, so I figured that either no one was reading it or everyone thought I was insane... :) Let me know if you get past step 26 and solve the vision recognition problem. I could use some help on that (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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