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Re: Brick Storage Showcase (and some padding to make lines wrap well)
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Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:42:03 GMT
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Kevin Salm wrote:
> In lugnet.storage, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=77592
> What do you figure the cost to have been so far?
Figure $100 for Keter boxes, Shimano tackle boxes, and misc other tackle
boxes. $50 for two Plano 1234s. Probably $120 for ten Stack-On 18-, 39-,
or 60-drawer units. Around $150? for Gracious Living drawer units (each
three-large-drawer or equivalent unit retailed for $15, but all ~20 I own
were purchased on clearance at various Stapleses for $5--$10). Maybe
$30--$50 in Meijer plastic bins. Maybe $25 for Sterilite 28 qt. underbed
tubs. $15 for Sterilite shoeboxes. ~$40? for plywood, screws, and foam
rubber. A bunch of Ziploc and clone baggies.
Ouch. North of $500, and that doesn't even count things like the
additional cost for me to have a two-bedroom instead of one-bedroom
apartment. For reference, I have been accumulating the elements of this
storage system over the past 4 1/2 years (I discarded my legacy storage
system shortly after I came out of my dark ages).
> Overall, VERY compartmentalized. Perhaps more than my personal
> preference. How does your storage affect your building? I mean does it
> tend to hinder unplanned creativity and do you spend a lot of time
> remembering where each part is before finding it? Is part retreival
> time very long? While building, things that take a lot of parts (like
> structures), or things with great variety of parts (like locomotives) do
> you remove many drawers from their holding units or is it better for you
> to constantly keep pulling open drawers?
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> And how about the putting stuff away processes: After sessions of heavy
> building, does it take much time to re-store unused parts? How often do
> you have to re-allocate space as your collection grows?
That's hard to say, since, much like when I was ten years old, I spend
much time organizing my Lego and little time building. With the latest
iteration of my Lego organization last month (basically fixing where I got
lazy last spring, and was just putting parts in bins to say that they were
stored) I think I can very easily put my hands on any part I own (that is
not in a set or a MOC) in a matter of seconds[1]. When using the same
type or color of part repeatedly I pull out the drawers and bring them
over to my building table. I find that my Keter drawers are tremendously
useful for getting a good supply of a part in a certain color without
having to walk a lot (or have big bins of an accent color getting in the
way).
Putting parts away is almost always very quick---usually quicker than
getting them out would be. I can usually get the parts from a draft
stored away in only a few minutes. Relatively large infusions of parts
can be a problem; when I had a sorting party and sorted eight 4679 tubs I
spent some time putting bricks into overstock tubs (which I had once the
4679 tubs were empty. . .) as the bags/drawers from the primary stock
filled up. My latest changes basically were to rearrange my Stack-On
units so that a) there was a logical place for everything I wanted in them
and b) it would be easier for me to rebalance drawers as they filled up
(basically, having empty larger drawers near each block of smaller
drawers, so that if the smaller drawers filled up and I didn't want to
start dividing by color I could just empty the smaller drawer into a
larger drawer).
I'm happy with where I am right now in terms of how the storage can grow.
I know some things (like parting out my ISD) would be a big shock to the
system but I have hopes that after a few more tweaks I can begin a process
of bringing sets out of the closet to add to the sorted parts while making
enough MOCs to prevent overflow in the storage (which MOCs can then be
moved into the closet).
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
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