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(...) I've never lived in a house with an attic, but I can tell you I used to keep a gallon ziplock bag of used and abuse pieces behind the seat of my NLS's pickup truck to play with, and they were none the worse for wear, even after baking in 100F+ (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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I just completed a Lugnet post search on "attic heat" and did not read any postings that said: "Attic heat destroyed my Legos." I was wondering if our intuition tells us not to store in the attic but if in all actuality there is no hard evidence of (...) (23 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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(...) 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, (...) (23 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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(...) [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 (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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Simian's advice was pretty good, so is Jonathan's. (...) Divide and conquer and multi-stage sorting are key techniques to huge sorting problems. (...) I haven't learned that one yet :-) Frank (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.storage)
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