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RE: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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lugnet.storage
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Wed, 12 May 1999 17:27:56 GMT
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<snipped John's description of sorting strategy>
I then locate the plano 3700
> tackle boxes with those colors soted in them( i like the semi transparent
> nature of those boxes, easier to see whats in them when they are up on the
> shelf. With those boxes set out , I can then make adjsutments to the plano
> system to accomadate the new pieces. this is then repeated for each of the
> colors. when finished the plano boxes are placed on a basic freestanding 5
> pine shelf that I got from Lowe's that will hold 24 planos on each shelf.
> Currently there are about 115 planos on this shelf
Good God man! I have about 15 Planos full of Technic and I thought I was a
bit nuts...well my spouse thinks so. If you have 115 of them at an average of
$4 US thats $500 just for the storage! WOW!
You go on to write that this is small compared to those with BIG collections....
At least you got the Plano boxes. See my site for info on how to modify them without
wrecking them too much.
<http://www.bmts.com/~rhempel/lego/default.html>
See the storage section.
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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 | | Re: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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| lots of interesting ideas here : ) here is the system I developed recently and its works for me. it goes thru a couple of stages. I prefer to sort by color first dumping the need to sort legos into one of the large boxes from the 5571 truck / dark (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.storage)
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