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Re: Silly storage question
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Date: 
Sun, 10 Nov 2002 14:24:17 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Carl Billen writes:
Hi everyone,

I was sorting my pieces and wanted to store away 1x2 and 1x4 log bricks; I
don't have to many of them, but I find them very useful so I wanted to give
them their own little storage cabinet plastic drawer.  I noticed I had 'a
bit too many' of the 1x2 to fill a small drawer, but I found it such a waste
to use up a medium sized drawer for them.

And then I got the idea of instead putting them in the drawer all separated
(so that you had a pile of single bricks), I put them together, making
little constructions of 13 1x2 bricks stuck on top of each other.  This
allowed me to stuff them more closely together in the drawer.  As a result I
have a drawer only filled for two-thirds because I put the bricks together
instead of keeping each piece separately.

But a friend of mine (who's also busy finding a way to store his bricks) was
concerned whether this was 'healthy' for the bricks to store them away all
put together.

So here's my silly question : Is it wise to store away the bricks put
together in order to save space? Or is it recommended that during storage
all the bricks are not mounted on each other?

Personally I don't think it can do any harm, as there are people who build
models and keep them together for several years, and to me that's "storage
with bricks put together" too...

Yes, it is.

There are conflicting opinions about this. I have heard that keeping things
together means the bricks deform slightly and get looser. I have some 1x2s I
put together in 1998 to store them that I just took apart and some of them
do in fact seem a little looser to me. But on the other hand I have some
models from that time period that seem to be fine.

Maybe it only happens to bricks that you STORE? Build all your bricks into
models and you'll be OK? GRIN.

I dunno.

Great question, though, I hope others speak up too.



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(...) I have never heard such claims as this before but I find it perfectly ridiculous. Why be worried about something that may never happen and will likely not matter if it does happen? Store your parts whatever way works for you based on how you (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.storage)

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Hi everyone, I was sorting my pieces and wanted to store away 1x2 and 1x4 log bricks; I don't have to many of them, but I find them very useful so I wanted to give them their own little storage cabinet plastic drawer. I noticed I had 'a bit too (...) (22 years ago, 10-Nov-02, to lugnet.storage)

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