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Re: Large Quantity sorting?
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lugnet.storage
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Mon, 4 Jun 2001 20:35:28 GMT
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suz@baseplate.com^antispam^
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Shaun Sullivan wrote:
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> I've been depriving myself of all LEGO construction the past month in
> order to finally sort all of my pieces. Using Akro-Mils units, I've
> just about completed my first run through the sorting process. My
> question relates to the sorting of bricks, plates, and slopes.
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> Up till now, I've simply been tossing bricks and the larger plates and
> slopes into large rubbermaid bins, knowing full well that I won't be
> able to fit them into any drawers. What sort of a system do people tend
> to use for these high-quantity, high-volume pieces?
I keep my plates of 4x4 und larger in rings. That is, I connect them on
one corner or one edge, creating an object. When working, I then have,
for example, a ring of 4x6 gray plates from which I peel off plates as
needed. Rings can be stacked or placed together into bins. I learned
this from Todd, but have since seen LEGO Model Builders do the same.
I store large bricks as 1xn's of a color in their own bucket, and 2xn's
of that color in another bucket, etc. The 1x1 bricks are stored as
"sticks" to make them easier to locate.
> I was considering buying a bunch of the rubbermaid three-drawer units.
> My thought was that I could put logical pairs of pieces together - 1x6
> and 1x1 in one drawer, 1x2 and 1x8 in another, 1x3 and 1x10 in a third,
> etc. With a system like this, I imagine it might be pretty easy to pick
> out the part you wanted - first because the eye sorts by color quite
> naturally, and secondly because the mixing of two widely disparate
> shapes might be easily distinguishable. My thought was that this might
> necessitate fewer drawers total. Has anybody ever tried something like
> this, and have they had any luck with it?
I do something similar with tiny elements. Just as you're creating
contrast of size with the two elements you're choosing to put together,
I often put black with white, blue with yellow, etc. to save on the
number of bins used. Your smaller elements may fall to the bottom.
-Suz
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