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| (...) doing (...) way. My current method is as follows: followed by 12 sentences of detailed instructions. I've been married to an engineer for 20 years now, and feel compelled to offer you some advice on sorting (knowing the engineer type so well). (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp (myself among the adherents) that feels that sorting by color is a total waste of time (except for green :-)). Far more important to sort by size and type. When rooting for a part, (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| > Ah, the canonical sorting debate has arisen. There is a camp > (myself among the adherents) that feels that sorting by color > is a total waste of time (except for green :-)). Far more > important to sort by size and type. Yes, yes, we've all (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) Yes, but I feel that using too many sorting bins is a waste of space because there's always going to be a lot of bins that are nearly empty. And if you have too many bins, you cannot stack them all in front of you when building, so you need to (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) I hear you. My kids are really bad about building from sorted bins. For about a week after I've done major sorting, they'll come up with creations made from all 1xN plates, or only round pieces. Thought about sorting by colors vs sorting by (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) The situation you describe needn't be the case. You mention two problems. If empty bin-space is a problem, you are suffering from one of two difficulties. Bins too large for your collection. Or a collection too small for your bins (see my (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) So THAT's why my collection is so big! I sort into Sterilite shoe boxes (1) and no matter how hard I try, I haven't yet filled a shoe box with Technic 1x1 beams. :-) OR silver bricks. :-) :-) Gotta buy more sets, I guess. (...) Finally, a (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| Larry Pieniazek <lpien@NOSPAM.ctp.com> wrote (...) Trust him. It is. For small amounts having "misc" bins works well, but I use a threshold of about 2x4x2" of small parts before I split them out. This is because with Technic I find it easier to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)
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