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Re: need help with storage ideas for tons of LEGO
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Date: 
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 02:10:54 GMT
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berwin@tufts.edu (Ben Erwin) wrote in <384EC116.C02310AF@tufts.edu>:


We are looking to bring all of our LEGO pieces (many thousands of US
dollars worth) together into one building space.

Currently we have ZAG storage units in two sizes (yellow and green) from
the Home Depot.

see photo at http://www.tufts.edu/~berwin/storage.jpg

We will probably go with something more industrial such as the Akro-Mils
bins since it will be easier to order them with a purchase order.

But the table in the above photo is 10 feet by 4 feet - much too deep to
keep a row of bins at the back end of the table or against the wall out
of reach.

I had thought of maybe having a turntable/lazy susan with bins stacked
around its diameter - sort of like a family table at a taiwanese
restaurant, but I wanted to know if anyone had other ideas...

-Ben


Wooo, that is a nice big table.  I'm jealous.

I find that I like to have bins arranged around me in an L or U shape,
and to keep them separate from the table space where I'm building.
I keep them in bins somewhat like you have, covering two walls from floor
to ceiling.  I have them arranged like this in my work space:

|S TTTTTTTS
|S    *   S
|SSSSSSSSSS
+------------

S = shelf
T = table
- = wall
* = where I sit

In your picture, I'd be tempted to pull the table out from the wall that
it's currently against, and then put a shelf of bins against that wall.
Then sit between the table and the wall.  I can't tell from the picture if
that will work, but even if not, I'd try other rearranging before going for
the lazy susan.

  -r'm

Remy Evard -- evard@mcs.anl.gov -- www.mcs.anl.gov/~evard -- 630.252.5963
Manager of Advanced Computing and Networking,  MCS,  Argonne National Lab



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