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Re: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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lugnet.storage
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Tue, 11 May 1999 07:55:11 GMT
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Hi,
Apologies if my silly news reader messed up the quote
attributions. :(
> Jonathan wrote:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > Actually, I have thought about using the sort-by-original-set method, since
> > getting all the new SW sets. Before that, I used to sort by color, but with all
> > the older space sets I have, I have two big drawers for black pieces.
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> I did this until my black pieces were overflowing three drawers. It just
> got too difficult to find any piece I needed.
Then I'm probably WAY too methodical. I've got
over 250 drawers, classified by element. If there are
too many for the little drawers, I then resort to colour.
Standard plates and bricks get no such treatment,
though; I just put rectangular bricks together and 1x/2x
plates together. Larger plates are in another large bin,
incline pieces in yet another (reg and inverse are separate)
and wing pieces get another large bin. There are "midsize"
bins for large elements like windshields, shrubs, masts,
and so forth. I'd say there are probably 20 or 30 bins
and over 200 drawers in use.
Minifigs are mounted on baseplates and sort of stand
around--no good bin system exists. I do have a little
parts container for minifig accessories--the ones that
could never be anything else, that is--and a little bag
of broken bits, which is thankfully very small.
The down side to having this classification system is
that when the collection grows, the system needs to
be updated and redivided (SW has caused this too,
btw) and sometimes I forget where I put the drawer
with (name element here), because it's never in the
same place for more than a few months. :(
LFB.
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| (...) I sort by color and size. I store elements in the storage cases from 545 and 575 (those 6 and 9 compartment drawers using 16x32 baseplates as bins. Each compartment holds a specific color and size element - 1x2 yellow bricks, 2x8 blue plates, (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.storage)
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