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(...) I find this interesting. :) (...) I never did this one-- the concept of "set" is pretty alien to me; it gets built once, _maybe_, as a set and then it's just parts. (...) This happened fairly late for me-- actually _after_ more fine sorting. I (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) My sorting and associated deviant behaviors.... 1 2 Fab figures, Fabuland sets, other 5 but obvious way to me was size 5a start putting instuctions/catalogues in plastic sleeves in 3 ring binders start colapsing nonFab boxes to store 11 13 14 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Quite available in the US, and I've seen them at least within the past 12 months. I wouldn't swear that Rolykits is the brand their sold under here, but they definitely are around (and the website confirmed my guess as to what you were talking (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) I'm about here. I've got 128-gals. worth of Rubbermaid tubs, 4 tubs filled to the brim with pieces sorted by type into Ziploc freezer bags, the other two tubs unsorted pieces. I used to sort baseplates, but that (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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All, After completing my latest model (Bart Simpson) I rearranged my house furnishings to try and consolidate my LEGO bricks. Since there always seems to be fascination about how folks store there stuff, I updated my page: (URL) ---...--- Eric (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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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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(...) Yep... I also have quite a pile of collections I've picked up on Ebay and in local garage sales. I actually sort those independently of my main pile, and only integrate them once I've either completed all the sets that I can from the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) [Lots of snipping. Frank and I generated some serious text in here.] Thanks for the detailed response Frank... it was very insightful for me to read it from your perspective. (...) To be completely honest, I don't remember quite what happened (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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I followed what you said almost exactly until about step 6. Right now, I'm about an 8 or 9. I sort my pieces by color (though I separated black plates and blocks as I had so many) in shoeboxes and those cardboard boxes that come in the larger sets. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Great insight! One would have had to go through this to have been able to write it so well. Thanks. <Major Snippage> (...) I got to this step about 6 years ago ;-) I now call my basement: "My Shop". (...) Step 26 is in the wrong order. It (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Great story... I'm glad I started visiting LUGNET almost immediately after exiting my "shadow" period (I never really stopped playing with my LEGO, but for about 4 years I hardly bought anything) Because of what I read here, I started sorting (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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