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(...) Which one exactly are you looking for? If it's this one Wal-Mart usually has this style. (URL) of mine have either come from Wal-Mart or TCS. Eric Kingsley (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Amazon.com seems to be out of most styles of Akro-Mils storage cabinets. Does anyone know a good online source for them, or a source in the Boston area? I specifically need cabinets that have mid-sized drawers. Thanks, eric (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) This is an almost constant condition for my collection (having gallons of unsorted pieces). (...) I've spent the last week's evenings and have just managed to sort most of my littlest pieces from the gallons mentioned above. (...) Yep! Been (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Have you asked your IKEA to order it for you. There usually pretty good about getting stuff in. They ordered an IVAR cabinet that I 'needed' for me and guarented I would have it before I moved to an area where the closest IKEA is 4 hours away (in (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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To All, (...) it (...) of (...) Heh, I just that last week, when I was looking for some instruction booklets, I had a handful of trades and purchases of certain space sets, that I forgot about. Umm... Space Police 1 sets..... Heh heh. Scott S. -- (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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...digging through stored-away lego, that is. Good heavens! I didn't know it was possible to entirely *forget* you had a certain set or a certain type of pieces... I'll bet this is what people going through dark ages feel like when they finally go (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) My fault for being so newsgroup unsaavy, I didn't consider the ensuing thread. I went to the website you can't order from there and I don't have the catalogue. I live in Center City Philadelphia so getting there isn't an issue but the corner (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) IKEA does mail order. Or did. Sort of The problem is that it's sort of a do it yourself process. We got our first Ivar this way, from the Philadelphia store, 7 years ago now. We did it by calling and asking if we could order, there was no (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) I have solved step 26(for awhile anyway), her name is Ryann Powell and she's 9yrs old. Hopefully I can keep her interested in retreiving parts for Daddy until I can come up with another solution... Robert Powell (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) There's a whole bunch of ideas and discussion in lugnet.storage: (URL) lugnet.storage (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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I keep my LEGO instructions and catalogs in binders on a bookshelf in my LEGO area for quick reference when building. I also have another binder just for building ideas. In this binder I keep all of my sketches and ideas. I also keep printouts of (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.general)
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Last weekend, I got a chance to break out the Lego again and work on some stuff that I'd like to build. I couldn't find anything. I had about 25 gallons of unsorted Lego, and another 10 or so gallons of sorted-in-plastic-bags Lego from my last (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ok, now I will have nightmares about Lego pieces going down the sewer system... (...) I thought about using some filling but maybe it can be worse because the small pieces will get mixed with it. (...) So better the box don't have small holes. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) JOOO...OOOE!!!!! ;^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Or you let somebody drive the train too fast around the bend and it goes flying off the table, crashing to the floor: (URL) you transport a model somewhere to get it photographed and the thing breaks in your hand because you were carrying it (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) ...I've had worse! -John (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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"Richard Schamus" <legoman34@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:G77Hyy.4BD@lugnet.com... (...) off, (...) say. (...) I have had bits and pieces fall off and it was pretty easy to figure out where they went when it was time to put it back (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) What we did was change the "trunk" to 2x2 round bricks and put a technic axle through the lot and they stay together real well. (...) all of our stuff has boxes to go in and you try and pack a tightly as possible. We always end up with (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Well I think we all expect some collateral damage. For me I just pack MOC's as tightly as I can boxes then just make sure I don't tip the box (this end up arrows help). I will admit I used to worry a lot more about this than I do now. Now I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) That's quite normal: what's your concern as long as this doesn't happen directly over a gap in canalization.... (...) I myself try to put them into boxes (without filling material). Nearly everytime some small parts fall off - but are lying at (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) In my experience, if your main model is structurally sound you shouldn't have too many problems. That is, the main part of the model. If you have bits that you know will easilly fall off, and you can't get it (the whole model) into a box for (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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I had to take some models from my home to the office, some pieces fall off, and it was not a very positive experience. So my question is: How to transport Lego? Assembled models, I mean. I guess that people that show stuff at train shows must have (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yeah, those are nice, aren't they? I need a wall-full of those. Eric posted in this group not too long ago about that. See this page: (URL) follow the "updated pictures" link, where among other things, he says these are "tilt bins" from Arnon (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I also skipped most of the "sort-by-colour" etc. phases. I think that this may be because I mostly have Technic parts, and you tend to go more for types of parts than colour. I am now at the stage of needing to sort into different coloured (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3A5D30E2.B1878C...ing.com... (...) I've been looking for them here, and have been sending them emails, but no reply... (...) Maybe it's 'cause I grew up with them; my Technic stuff and all (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Well, I'm at about step 18 right now, though I was lucky enough to skip the initial "sort-by-colour" phase, and step 17. Looks like I've got some good times to look forward to... ROSCO (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) The Hefty One Zip bags seal very positively. The Ziploc Slideloc bags don't always seal so well. I use freezer weight bags, which I hope will last several years (though some have been damaged by getting jammed as a drawer was opened, causing (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Heh. Mine starts a little oddly, but is otherwise about normal. ;) (...) 1. You don't sort your Lego. You pack it all in as tightly as you can get so it fits in one suitcase on the way home. Smile nicely at the customs officer. ;) I came out (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I found this didn't work as well for me; even using "brand name" bags, I found that I wasn't completely sealing bags-of-1x2-tiles and such. Also, the bags aren't holding up well now five years later. I think they'll be more useful as I add (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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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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