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(...) I don't think this is necessary for efficient sorting. I just pick out a handful of pieces of a given type, then put them in their bin, and then a handful of pieces of either the same or a slightly different type, and repeat. But then, I'm not (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) Obviously you have a much smaller collection. Believe me, the sorting problem gets worse as you get more pieces. To get an idea, I'll try and relate how much of each of your 21 bins I have... For reference in the following, a "large tub" is (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) [snip inventory of huge collection] If my collection was as big as you describe, I would probably still have only 21 (or a similar number) categories. Each category might correspond to a stack of bins, though (Probably each ziplock in my (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) Ok, what wasn't quite so obvious was the sub-dividing you were doing. I agree that there is some modest number of global categories of parts. I'd pick a different set than your 21, but the number does depend somewhat on what you tend to build, (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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When you get up to 20-50 7-drawer Iris carts, you WILL sort in as fine a detail as possible, trust me :-/ (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (22 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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(...) Yow. I can't begin to imagine sorting 500k pieces. I've got about an order of magnitude lower than that currently unsorted, and I'm not looking forward to that. But, to get back to the topic at hand: When I sorted mine, I first sorted six (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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