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Re: Sorting strategies [was: Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Moly ! !]
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Wed, 8 May 2002 14:27:10 GMT
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In article <3CD86B19.CD3B3C78@mindspring.com>,
Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> categories I suspect, and probably fewer than 21. Me with my 500k
> collection might have more categories, or have some categories combined.
> I found some parts changed categories to fit available space (hmm, no
> more space for these clear thin walls in the windows box, I guess
> they'll go with the walls).
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 uber-categories: bricks, plates,
minifigs-and-minifig-stuff, wheels, weird stuff (clips, slopes, etc)
and overly-large-stuff. (baseplates, large canopies, castle walls..)
I sorted the bricks, weird stuff, and the minifig stuff (and 1xn plates;
I have been meaning to get around to sorting plates), but wound up leaving
everything else unsorted beyond that.
Bricks and 1xn plates I've sorted by type and by color; mini-fig stuff and
weird stuff only by type. Weird stuff is, by far, the largest number of
pieces and types of pieces.
I sorted mostly into rubbermaid bins, and then sub-sorted from them into the
storage boxes (plano and akro-mils)
> Bricks and plates are probably the most deserving of being sorted by
> size and color.
Indeed. My take on this is that while it's still easy to find the last
white 1x4 brick amongst all the 1x4 bricks, I have enough of said bricks
that even gallon freezer bags can't handle the whole mess of 'em. On the
other hand, 1x2 grate tiles, while it seems they are the cheapest thing
Lego makes judging by the sheer numbers of them, I can fit all of them
in every color in a single drawer of the storage boxes.
> Well, it sounds a bit like you do sort of do multi-stage sorting, you
> just are set up so if the 2nd stage doesn't get done, the parts are
> still reasonably accessible. This is a neat idea and I'll have to
> consider it (hmm, actually, I do use it sometimes, because of how my
> collection was stored in NC, I actually found it easier to get 1xN
> bricks from the partially sorted overflow bins rather than excavate to
> the sorted bins).
In fact, I think the "right answer" is to not do the second stage _until_
after you've used 'em. I found, for example, it just isn't worth sorting
out different types of wheels from each other. Or the overly large
pieces. Or even the larger plates. But sorting the "weird" stuff was required,
as was sorting the bricks. I'm still not sure I should have sorted the
minifig parts...
-JDF
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J.D. Forinash ,-.
jd@forinash.not ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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