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Re: Large Quantity sorting?
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:44:19 GMT
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In article <3B1BF1AC.716782CF@irco.com>,
Shaun Sullivan  <shaun_sullivan@irco.com> wrote:
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?

Some of my akro-mills (and Plano) bins include drawers about six or eight
times as large as a standard drawer. I use those.

Sure, I still can't fit all my, say, 1x2s of a given color in one, but I
can fit enough to build stuff. The rest hide sorted in separate ziplock
bags in a blue tub and that I can easily replenish the supply in the drawer
from.

I've got the open-top bins for 1x6s and 1x8s, but that doesn't work as
well as I'd hoped. (good thing they came "free" with the stuff that does
work...)

-JDF
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  Large Quantity sorting?
 
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, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.storage)

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