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How do you guys store minifigs and their accessories? I've gone through various stages of storage methods, but i've yet to find a fantastic solution :/ right now i'm at the: 1 full blue tub of figs - no hair, no helmets, no flippers, just heads, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Storing Instruction booklets...
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Thanks for all the help... I was also wondering how you store your LEGO catalogs... they are about 1/2 the size of a big instruction booklet. Thanks, -- Zlatko Unger fusion@refraxion.com or ungerz@bellsouth.net AIM: ErrorY3K or MojoJojo535 ~ eBay: (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Actually, I didn't say that quite correctly. There are two aspect ratios which alternate, so every other paper size has the same aspect ratio. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) US Paper can also be cut in half to form the next paper size, however the aspect ratio changes every other paper size. 8.5"x11" = A 11"x17" = B 17"x22" = C 22"x34" = D 34"x44" = E E is the largest size I've heard of in relation to plotters. (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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"Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:GHEs6M.Bon@lugnet.com... (...) This is what I had in mind: (URL) these are for 8.5" x 11" publications, too short for A4 instruction manuals. :( Anything A4-sized is extremely rare (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Go to Buy.com and search A4, they have 3 binders and 2 sheet protector packs Thanx, Mark Millère LUGnet # 525 Visit Milissa's LEGO store, Millère's Spares (URL) -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Luckily in Britain we use the A system so we have lever arch binders and clear plastic punched pockets which fit (even the Silver Truck instructions just fit into one). I use four ring binders (3 of) which minimises the pockets tearing through (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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"Z. Unger" <fusion@refraxion.com> wrote in message news:GHELLK.F3s@lugnet.com... (...) Currently I just keep them in a large storage tub. I wish I had a binder that was big enough for A4 pages. Then I'd use thin magazine holders to keep a bunch of (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Howdy y'all, How do you store your instruction booklets? I mean what is the most effective way to do so? Thanks, -- Zlatko Unger fusion@refraxion.com or ungerz@bellsouth.net AIM: ErrorY3K or MojoJojo535 ~ eBay: dizzyzz ===...=== LEGO Fusion: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Compete LEGO Cargo System for $40
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(...) This ends tonight, so if you want one of these, jump on it. -Rob. (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: How do you store all that?
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(...) Welcome, Aimee! People have found many different ways to store their LEGO collections. Methods are often based on the quantity of pieces, their building style, and space constraints. I'm sure a lengthly FAQ could be written about this (I've (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Wow. I own a House. It has a Basement. I see a monster LEGO setup in my future
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(...) My dream setup for a Lego room would have a large permanent wood table in the shape of the letter 'U' The width would be 3 or 3 1/2 baseplates across (the 32 x 32 stud variety). The edges would have a slight upward lip to hold the baseplates (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: A difficult task...
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(...) It all depend how big your collection is. If you do not know what to do, go and read this (again). (URL) will find out, that sorting your collection is a neverending process. Regards, Ben (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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(...) I sorted by color for many years, but I don't think it's a good idea. I recently switched to sorting by type of element, and find it to be much more useful. The main problems with sorting by color are: 1. It's hard to find the right element (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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(...) Thanks for replying! I was going to do color.. now I definately will.. but I'm afraid I have to delay this project, 'cause I'm going to camp tomorrow, and I'll be gone for about a week.. but, to all who are interested, I'm gonna put a couple (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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(...) It's all a matter of choice. Your choice. I've found that as my collection expands, my sub-catagorization has grown too. Exponentially. I sort brick out first. Some do it by color, some by size. I do color. I used to have regular brick and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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| | A difficult task...
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Hi, me again.. I'm going to attempt the difficult task of sorting my collection.. where do I start? how do I sort? what goes where? please respond.. <<Joel Dobbins>> (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Surbiton Micro Fest - Sunday 1 July 2001
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Jon D Hayward (<GF9uKt.FAr@lugnet.com>) wrote at 08:36:03 (...) I use some other ZAG products - the upright chests of drawers, which come with two depths and can be divided into any number of compartments between 1 & 6, and the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Surbiton Micro Fest - Sunday 1 July 2001
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2 litre ice-cream tubs... very handy for bits and fun to empty of their original contents :) Ditto for those little sealable tubs you get chinese take-aways in (mmm... Friday Take-away night) Steve (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Surbiton Micro Fest - Sunday 1 July 2001
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The ZAG boxes I use come from B&Q - see (URL) site doesn't show the £10 one I use most. It has 6(?) fixed long compartments, into which you can slot a number of dividers making up to 20+ (or 30+ ?) smaller sections. Great for all manner of parts, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Surbiton Micro Fest - Sunday 1 July 2001
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You may laught but here are the stuff I use to organised my parts : * Wooden box (old wine box, large one). * Clover butter boxes (2 size, small and midddle). I just add a sticker on the Clover cover. It doesn't look to bad, easy to stack. (...) I (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Surbiton Micro Fest - Sunday 1 July 2001
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(...) Is there any space left? I would love to come if I may. (...) One of my problems at the micro-fest will be lack of budget because I have just sorted out my storage: I have just bought some Araven Mobel 303 A4 drawers... (URL) Homebase. They (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Drawers vs tilt-bins and scratching?
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I use drawers with items sorted by type and then by colour if needed. I love it, it saves me so much time in digging. Building becomes a pleasure. That being said, It works with my very modest collection. Plus a lot of my collection is on display. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: cleaning transparent pieces
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(...) Thanks for the input. Ill take a squiz around and see what works the best. We've got a buffing wheel downstairs so I might give that a go. ZaC Soden ---...--- www.ozbricks.com/battlespace (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I think that would take a steadier hand than my Coke-addled brain can summon. I wonder if a fingernail buffing stick would work (though, I expect, a little bit more slowly!) (...) Rubbing alcohol is similarly effective! I've had limited (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: cleaning transparent pieces
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(...) Awesome idea! (...) Zac - Brasso is a smelly, ever-so-slightly abrasive polish for - you guessed it - brass! It will take the decals off of bricks that you would like to be plain, too. (very slowly) You have K-mart in Australia? Try finding (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) What exactly is Brasso? I live in Australia so I don't know any of these American brands. Zac Soden ---...--- www.ozbricks.com/battlespace (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Large Quantity sorting?
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(...) My mom refused to buy me one. She made me one instead. Except she used really cheap cloth instead of denim and the grommets she used came out very easily. I use an old sheet nowadays when I want to play on the floor, and pour the contents into (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Gee, I didn't think anyone else had one of those.... Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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I used Brasso and a cotton rag and buffered all my scratches out. however some of the deepier ones were a pain. the improvement for me was still to use the Brasso however I am using a small buffing wheel on my cordless dremel tool. Works great. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Hi everyone, I've had my collection going for over 10 years now and am finally attempting to get a serious sorting system happening. I have realised how easily that trans elements scratch and, after living inside the Lego bag for years, many are (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) This statement I can agree with completely. The next statement I must comment on: (...) I agree that "oversorting" as you name it causes more difficulty when putting pieces away, but it is definitely an advantage when trying to get to the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Hmm, sorting is for you what it is for us all, that which works best for your given situation. I have all my basic bricks sorted by color and sixe, put into Zip-locks and thrown into big tubs. (1500 peice blue tubs for off colors) I then have (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) all (...) Definitely, dual or triple color sorting systems work very well. For example, I sort all 6x plates into Black with Gray, Yellow with White, Blue with Red. Same goes for 4x plates. My 2x and 1x plates are sorted as Red with Black and (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Some of my akro-mills (and Plano) bins include drawers about six or eight times as large as a standard drawer. I use those. Sure, I still can't fit all my, say, 1x2s of a given color in one, but I can fit enough to build stuff. The rest hide (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I use the following categories in large IRIS drawers (counting upwards from the ground): * 1x2 and 2x2 bricks and plates * 1x3 and 2x3 bricks and plates * 1x4 and 2x4 bricks and plates * 1x6, 2x6, 1x12; 4x6 and 6x6 bricks and plates * 1x8, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I keep my plates of 4x4 und larger in rings. That is, I connect them on one corner or one edge, creating an object. When working, I then have, for example, a ring of 4x6 gray plates from which I peel off plates as needed. Rings can be stacked (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Ah, the age old question... I'm still stuck on using bins, for the reasons that I mostly just don't want to sort down to the "all white 1x4's in this box/bin/drawer", and this method is very easy to move...(I've already moved my collection 3 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Shaun, I use the Akron Mills bins for small pieces as you do. I have also used the LEGO buckets (old style work much better than new "anti-helmet" style) as mentioned. However, many years ago, I happened upon some kitchen trash cans (30 qt) (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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I sort Bricks using LEGO Tubs and Buckets. They are all sorted by type, for really common sizes like 2x4 and 1x4 I usually split up colors. For example I put Red, White, and Blue in one tub Black, Yellow, and Green in another and all other colors in (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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I've been depriving myself of all LEGO construction the past month in order to finally sort all of my pieces. Using Akro-Mils units, I've just about completed my first run through the sorting process. My question relates to the sorting of bricks, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: GATS Sneak Peak
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(...) Seen in: (2 URLs) getting more and more convinced I need to buy some of that wire rack shelving. Unfortunately, the consumer selection doesn't have the best sizes, but I may check out the restaurant supply store on South Saunders street and (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nclug, lugnet.storage)
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I don't use Akro-Mils cabinets, myself, but I recently found them in a store that offers mail order. It's a computer parts store called Halted Specialties, in Santa Clara CA. Their phone number is (408)732-1573, and their website is (URL) They have (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Yes. I have 3 IRIS cabinets of 7 drawers each. [...] (...) The cabinets are about 5 feet tall, and contain 7 drawers each, in three sizes (deep, medium, and shallow). I sit in a chair with a TV table off to one side, where the (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: A simple tray system using storage drawers
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(...) Cool... Upside of that is that interior dividers will give the box torsional rigidity!!! Downside is that you have the parts scrabble problem. Anything with square corners is hard to get parts out of. Which is why I am currently enamored of (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Yes, I agree box strength varies. (...) One clarification is that I am not using the box to hold trays... so those trays are not there to add torsional rigidity... I am usually using these boxes for things like holding a box full of MOCs to (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) An inexpensive hot glue gun and plenty of glue sticks might solve this problem. For me, I use hot glue liberally to reinforce boxes when they are new--sometimes even un-gluing flaps that were glued at the Lego factory. In fact, I use so much (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I really don't think you're unlucky. Hmm.. I have noticed that the 5561 Model Team box is exceptional compared with others I've used. This includes 8277 Giant Model Set (very bad one), 6097 Night Lord's Castle (pretty bad one), 5988 Pharaoh's (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Thanks Suzanne! Very helpful. I snipped it but I have one question. I have found the 5561 and other boxes to be not all that strong. I use a razor to slice the display window cardboard off so the tape doesn't rip the cardboard and weaken it, then I (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | A simple tray system using storage drawers
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This is a tray system I use for LEGO building at home sometimes. Whether or not this method would work for you, of course depends on the type of building you do and how you like to work, etc. But I thought it may be of interest to some people whose (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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