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Trapdoor thoughts
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lugnet.storage
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Tue, 14 May 2002 20:46:58 GMT
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Picture if you will, a sheet of tinted Plexiglas with a hole in one
area, or perhaps a door that lifts up to reveal a hole. Underneath
the hole is a large, maybe 2 foot diameter wheel-like structure, which
hangs from the table. It is partitioned into maybe 8 sections, like a
pizza, such that by rotating the wheel, each of the sections can be
positioned below the hole. Each of these sections would consist of a
wedge-shaped space several inches deep. Either the wheel sections
would in turn have some sort of trap door in the bottom, or they would
hold some sort of removable bin, or some mechanism for removing the
contents of each wedge-shaped section.
To sort LEGO, you isolate several identical (or at least to-be-sorted-
together) pieces, and scoop them through the whole into one of the
wedges. Then rotate the wheel a little and repeat for a different
category of elements. Repeat until you're done sorting or you've run
out of wheel sections. Then empty the sections into their appropriate
bags/bins/drawers and sort some more.
(The reason for using Plexiglas is to make it possible to see the
contents of the "wheels". The reason for tinting it is to make it
easy to distinguish the elements on top of the table from the contents
of the "wheels".)
By having two wheels and two holes in the table you could sort a lot
of LEGO very quickly...
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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