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Re: A Monumental Task
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Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:43:33 GMT
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At 12:27 12/15/2004, you wrote:
> Steven Weiser wrote:
> > 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.
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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 movers wrapped some things with a sheet of newsprint.
> Everything got packed in boxes (they made custom boxes for my two stacks of
> Iris drawers on the spot). I had some huge zip lock bags that my larger MOCs
> went into (though some stuff was still packed from having gone to
> BricksWest - I didn't even unseal the tape from that package).
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> Like Jason, I also recently moved a short distance across town. For that I
> did almost no special packing. I do reccomend taping closed buckets for such
> a move, and being careful how many you carry at once, and opening up the
> back of the SUV when you have tucked them in against the gate (I had two
> bucket spills onto the driveway - one at each end). I moved most of the LEGO
> in one evening with the help of a friend, his VW Beetle, another friend's
> SUV.
>
> p.s. Check out NCLUG/NCLTC, though you will actually be much closer to
> Atlanta than Raleigh.
>
> Frank
I borrowed a roll of pallet wrap from work (with permission) and wrapped my
towers and drawers in it.. worked beautifully...
Joe Greene
UNIX Systems, Network and IT Specialist
a.k.a. Guesseppi Piegatura di Carta
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