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Re: Sorting
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:42:37 GMT
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In article <F14roo.GzG@lugnet.com>, "Duane Hess" <DNJHESS@ZDNETMAIL.COM> wrote:

Does anyone have a method to make sorting pieces easier?  I have several
tubs of Legos which still need to be sorted, but am feeling a bit lazy • about doing
it.

For Technic sets, I work on a big table, and use
a "coordinate system" of piles of same-type pieces.
(When building, I value form over aesthetics, so
all colors of a given part go in the same piles.)

                x1  x2  x3  x4  x6  x8  x10  x12
bricks ->
beams ->
1x plates ->
2x plates ->

I do something similar with technic shafts
(and more recently, connector pegs).  I find a
terrycloth towel useful for keeping round bits
from falling on the floor.

Roof bricks, round pieces, and other specialty
stuff go in their own piles.

Works for me...
-Tim

--
Tim and/or Shelley Rueger - rueger "at" io.com
WWW page: http://www.io.com/~rueger/



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What I have done so far with the pieces I have sorted is: 1. Put all pieces which currently have a classification in my system in one pile and all unclassified parts in another. 2. Sort all of the classified pieces into three catagories a) bricks b) (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)

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Does anyone have a method to make sorting pieces easier? I have several tubs of Legos which still need to be sorted, but am feeling a bit lazy about doing it. Duane ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.storage)

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