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Re: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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Tue, 11 May 1999 11:31:09 GMT
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As some other guys, I think the most appropriate way of sorting/storing the
pieces (from the building point of view) is using a drawer system.
Mine is from "port-bag" (an imported product so it must be available some
other places, too). They are simple transparent drawers with stackable solid
colored frames. They come in three different sizes: 5x5x15 cm, 5x10x15 cm,
and 5x20x15 cm. their frames have rails on all four sides and their sizes
are compatible to each other (ie. you can stack 4 small ones over a large
one, or 2 smalls over a medium), so they are completely stackable in all
directions.
My sorting method depends on directly both quantitative and qualitative
aspects of my collection. Mostly by shape or function, but sometimes both
shape and color. Such as "black 1x6 plates", "silver parts", "red/black 1x1
bricks", "other 1x1 bricks", 1x4 and 1x6 bricks", "radar dishes", "town
wheels, wide", "1x16 black technic beams", "transparent 1x1 plates", "2x2
tiles", "decorated bricks",...
Quantity of a certain type brick is the top most concern when assigning it
to its own drawer or deciding it should share space with its close
relatives.
I have also two compartmented small suitcase like boxes (like your plano
types) from "zag"(?) which I use for technic itty-bitties like pegs, bushes,
axles, gears, etc. and a third one for all kind of minifig accessories.
Relatively bigger parts go into some other boxes. I use a 6560 box for
regular 2x bricks, a 6558 box for base plates, a 6332 box for technic and
space wheels, and some other three random boxes (from RTL/lugnet trading)
are used for figs, animals and plants, and very large parts like BURPs,
dinghies, row boats, dome pieces, etc.
Considering the parts I generally don't use in my creations, my rack system,
two compartmented boxes (of technic pieces) and 6560 box is enough for me to
build in an (no so much) ergonomic, but organised environment.
My collection is a 25 000+ one, by the way, mostly town and technic, and 3-4
sets each from other themes.
Selçuk
Moz (Chris Moseley) wrote in message ...
> Kevin Wilson
> > Ideally, when I have a house and my dream
> > Lego Room, I will have one of those bins-on-brackets systems (probably
> > on a mobile shelving unit) so I can see and reach whatever I need right
> > away.
>
>
> At the risk of sounding negative, these didn't work as well as I'd
> hoped. Perhaps I couldn't get the right ones - what I got were
> drawers/trays about 6-8" deep, 4" wide and about 3" high. They stacked
> so I tried that. It worked after a fashion, but I decided that
> they really needed to be transparent. two reasons: you end up facing
> a big wall of them, and it gets dark really quickly if they're dark
> coloured plastic; and if you can see thru them it's both easier to
> mount them/stack them, and easier to see what's in the top/bottom ones
> in the stack.
>
> Alas, transparent ones are not to be found in NZ.
>
> My ideal moved to a corner desk with a combination of stacked storage
> like the bins system, and a tray system like the Technic boxes. But
> even that's not ideal, so I'm still looking. Oh, and bigger bins of
> stuff under the desk so I can reach down a little and grab a handful
> of yellow 2xN bricks or yellow 1xN beams.
>
> The big hassle for me is that with Technic I quite often need random
> parts, in the sense that I might need any or all of the hundreds
> of different parts from the collection, so it's not really practical
> to make subsets more difficult to get. I found that out by putting
> all my unpainted sloping parts into the box from the Technic Tow
> Truck and keeping that to one side. So it ended up on top of one
> set of trays, which just annoyed me.
>
> My current ideal is a control console where the "desk" is octagonal
> and goes right round me, and I have a swivel chair. It's also raked,
> so there are trays flat, then at about 45 degrees, then vertical.
> That way I get the maximum number of reachable parts, and can have
> quite deep bins/drawers under the flat trays for high-volume parts.
> Of course, getting into or out of it will be interesting... I suspect
> one side will need to be the building area, and that will need to
> hinge out of the way for the egress (The egress is a very fussy
> creature :)
>
> Moz
>
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| (...) I also use pretty much the same method you do, except that I often keep smaller quantities of drastically unlike pieces together so that they'll be easier to find. For instance, I keep 2x2 round plates in with my 1x10 plates, as both are easy (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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| Kevin Wilson (...) At the risk of sounding negative, these didn't work as well as I'd hoped. Perhaps I couldn't get the right ones - what I got were drawers/trays about 6-8" deep, 4" wide and about 3" high. They stacked so I tried that. It worked (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.storage)
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