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Re: Storage and Sorting...
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lugnet.storage
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Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:50:41 GMT
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Richard W. Schamus (legoman34) wrote:
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> In lugnet.storage, Jeff Stembel writes:
> > Well, after not having sorted in about a year, I decided to plunge into it and
> > try to clear out much of my backlog. That was about a month and a half ago,
> > and I am still not finished... I doubt I've hit the halfway point, actually...
> > Word to the Wise: Don't put off sorting. ;)
> > <snip>
> > Jeff
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> What do you think I've been up to for the past 6 months. Even with sorting 2
> hours a day, everyday, I'm still buried in brick. EEEEEEEEEEK!
Heh, what do you think I've been doing for almost two years now??? I
think I only had all my sets sorted or built for about the first few
months. Of course if you want to see a sad story, go visit Paul Sinasohn
sometime. In December while I was out in the Bay area I paid him a visit
and he game me a tour of his basement. Stacks and stacks of tubs of
LEGO, and he claims to have a storage facility (or two or three I seem
to recall). If he really does have a storage facility, in all
probability he's over a million bricks (which is interesting, as far as
I can tell, there is Conan with over 2 million bricks, then a bunch of
people at 500k give or take, and then tons of people in the 100k and
under categories, is there anyone at the 1 million level with any level
of supporting evidence?). At one time I thought my collection was going
to break one million, but now I'm not convinced I'll break 500k, but I'm
definitely in the 500k give or take category).
What I can do is agree with Larry that at the 500k level, you hit a
point where managing the collection is extremely difficult. The past few
months have had almost every final sorting stage result in a cascade of
overflowing of containers (oops, those no longer fit in a quart bag,
gee, with everything that's expanded, all those bags no longer fit in
that tub, ooh, now where does the new tub go?). There was a
pre-Christmas cascade which cascaded boxes beyond 4 per set into the
trash.
What's unfortunate is that it is impossible for me to have an accurate
brick count. I failed to consider that I should count the number of
parts in random parts lots. My final estimate is probably going to
estimate an additional 10%, but that's just pulling a number out of you
know where (actually, I could improve the estimate by counting the
number of parts lots and deciding that if I have 5000 sets plus 500
parts lots that a reasonable guess is an additional 10%, or if it was
250 parts lots, use 5% [this makes an assumption that the mix of parts
counts of parts lots is similar to the mix of parts counts of sets,
which is not too far fetched, I definitely buy a lot more <100 parts
sets similarly a lot of smaller parts lots - though thinking about it,
the percentage should probably be halved, parts lots are often 5-10
parts whereas sets tend to min out at about 20 parts]).
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) I'm having the same problem, though my solutions are slightly differant. (...) I'm in the same boat as far as part count goes. My personal preferance is to only count what I can count; actual sets with "official" piece counts. Anything extra (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) What do you think I've been up to for the past 6 months. Even with sorting 2 hours a day, everyday, I'm still buried in brick. EEE...EEEK! Ok, back to work - sorting. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.storage)
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