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A Monumental Task
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Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:22:44 GMT
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In preperation for my move from theeth chattering, bone chilling, people don't
know how to drive in the winter, Detroit, to the more mild weather, laid back,
quiet lifestyle in the mountains of Franklin, North Carolina, I have the
monumental task of packing and safely storing for the trip down, close to
300,000 pieces of Lego and hundreds of instruction booklets.
Not to mention the slightly less important items to move, like clothes,
furniture, etc.
So, I am storing everything in plastic ziploc bags and then placing those in the
same drawers the parts were in, and using masking tape to secure the drawers
closed. The instructions are going into a couple of 55 quart containers, also
sealed in ziploc bags.
The thing I really have to look forward to, is I will have an 18x20 weatherproof
hobby shop to set all of this back up in upon my arrival in early April. Size of
the shop is estimated since I have not actually measured it myself. But either
way, it is still a lot more room than this 10x12 bedroom most of it is in right
now.
It will take some time to get settled, but eventually I will be looking for a
new club to join and participate in shows with.
Oh what fun this is. WAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Steven Weiser
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| (...) Another good way of transporting already sorted bricks is to just wrap the entire storage bin in plastic wrap a few times. I did this with all of mine when I moved, and I didn't lose a single brick. It also saved me a ton of time. I didn't (...) (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) Good luck with the move. Beware masking tape and the evils of what the adhesive will do when left in contact with some plastics! I second the suggestion for using plastic shipping wrap. Sure, it's ecologically bad, but it is recyclable. (...) (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) I don't envy your task Steve. This summer, when my wife and I bought our first house, I had to move a similarly sized collection. I was fortunate in that we only moved 15 minutes away. (...) Since the majority of my collection is in 3033 sized (...) (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.storage, FTX)
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| (...) I didn't do a whole lot to prepare for the move of my 500-600k piece collection across country (from sunny Cary North Carolina [Raleigh] to rainy Beavrton Oregon [Portland]). Of course most of my pieces were in zip lock bags already. The (...) (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) When I moved from Santa Cruz to Mountain View (about 40 miles) three years ago, my collection was much smaller - three Iris drawer units about 5 feet tall, plus some 3033 tubs. I taped the Iris drawers shut with Scotch tape and made sure to (...) (20 years ago, 25-Dec-04, to lugnet.storage)
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