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Re: Sorting Methods
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Date: 
Tue, 7 May 2002 21:38:52 GMT
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Simian's advice was pretty good, so is Jonathan's.

My inclination is to divide and conquer. Split the larger piles up into
manageable piles and sort like items. All plates in one bucket, all bricks
in another, etc. Once that is complete, each bucket gets sorted by
individual piece; 1 x 2 brick, 1 x 3 brick etc.

Divide and conquer and multi-stage sorting are key techniques to huge
sorting problems.

Every month or so I do a clean up of this area.

On thing I definetly do is inventory management. I keep my collection under
control. i.e. I had abt 600 1x2 gray corragated (grille) bricks at one
point. I had no need for that many & sold some of them. I do this all the
time. 800 blue plates? For me: ridiculous, I'd never use them, so off to
EBAY they went.

I never know what I might need so I keep everything :-) I can't bring myself
to part with bricks very often.


If I have to spend too much time digging & looking for parts I get
frustrated & it hampers my productivity. Keeping my collection to a
managable size is very important to me.

Ditto

I haven't learned that one yet :-)

Frank



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(...) This is more or less the advice that I'm looking for. Basically, I have two 3'x 6' tables covered in miscellaneous parts, plus 3 or 4 3033 tubs with a variety of parts in them as well. My inclination is to divide and conquer. Split the larger (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)

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