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(...) A bit delayed response by me, but thanks for all of your help. I went back to our local Wal-Mart and lo and behold, they had some in stock. I'm now a lean, mean sorting machine. Compartmentalize well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) I bought one of these on Friday for the RIS 1.0 + Accessory set. Works great I hade every thing in baggies in the box & was hard to build anything but now it is organized. One thing I did differently is I put a few small boxes in the bottom (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Terry, That's a great box you've found. And I like the extra information on how you sort on the web page. I'm sure that you've already seen this, but my Tackle box is a bit bigger, and more expensive - but the big benefit is storage for 'bots (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Take a look at: (URL) a look at this low-cost Lego RIS packaging solution: After looking over and trying several methods of packaging the Lego RIS for use in schools and for easy transportation, I found an inexpensive ($7.96 at WalMart) tackle box (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Jon & Dave The "new" plano boxes (I got mine from Lowes) have more compartments (same number of dividers though) and the dividers STAY put! They have been out for about a year now. HTH Thanx, Mark Millère LUGnet # 525 Visit Milissa's LEGO (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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"Jonathan Lopes" <cityboy4k@aol.com> wrote in message news:GKL5In.Enw@lugnet.com... -snip- (...) I think this is a very very important topic. My personal goal reguarding my Lego is to have a collection that is optimized for building. I am by no (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:GKL7tq.L0C@lugnet.com... (...) Why (...) more (...) Unfortunatly, no. These seem to be the big plano tackle box of choice but the inserts slide out easily. I frequently have tiny pieces creep (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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"Joel Kuester" <septenemae@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GKKAEy.Lwt@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Yeah I'm mildly concerned that about half of my collection is in that ship. Hopefully its disassembly won't have a terrible effect on my sorting (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Are those the ones with the non-removable partitions?! I love those! Why would they be discontinued? For the past week or so I've been sorting my stock of red, and a few more of those Plano cases would be super handy for 1x1's et al... Dave! (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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I moved about a month ago & have a lot less space where I'm at now. I just re sorted my lego & have a great system that works for me now. My main goal is to keep my collection under control. Do I really need 100 green 1x2 plates right now? Thats (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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In lugnet.storage, Jon Palmer writes: ... (...) ... I like the drawers, even the small ones. I'm using close to 1000 of them now. I find that if I sort by color as well, one drawer handles most small parts. When it overflows, I can set a second (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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In lugnet.storage, Jon Palmer writes: much clipped (...) It varies, most of my building takes place on my coffee table, in front of the TV (usually keeping my wife and baby company). Sometimes I spread out on the floor to build. My sorting is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Bardiel... (...) I used to sit on the floor when I was younger, and never considered building any other way. When I was in high school, my back and neck would start to ache too much after Lego building sprees, so I started building on the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Seeing Bob Carney's well documented lego setup got me thinking about the topic of sorting/storage again. I have a few different topics to address in this post. First I'll describe my storage. I currently have 21 3-gallon clear rubbermaid tubs for (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.storage)
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I noticed that Bob Carney has updated his Web site with a discussion of his new building area and storage system. (URL) think he might more space dedicated to building Lego Castles than I have in my whole apartment. . . TWS Garrison (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) Um, I may have said that, but I think I have plausible denyability. My current thinking is that they're a good application over at Conan's, because he has a lot, but that they would be too pricey to use for me... I would need at least 100 of (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) The dividers do cause some problems, though they have not caused me enough difficulty to really affect the boxes usefulness, it just pays to pay attention to the types of parts they're good for and those they aren't good for. They probably (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) You like them too ?!? I know others have said they like them -- Ed Boxer and Lar for example, but personally I do not care for them one iota. The ones I have are used to store my 'Junk' Lego pieces that I do not need but am not yet ready to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.storage)
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(...) couple years ago when I was first starting to collect. K-Mart had a nice little Freestyle set (set 2146) on clearance which came with a red box with yellow plates (as pictured). I've also managed to acquire a blue one, and a couple blue ones (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.storage)
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Yeah, I've got a couple of those. They came with a bunch of little-kid basic bricks. You know, like the yellow 2x4 with smiley face and the 2x2 with eyeballs on the side. The yellow parts are standard baseplates, and I've used them on many (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.storage)
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