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| | | (...) "Technically" 8 wide??? Hmmm....just wondering how that is different than just plain ol' 8 wide.... Freddie Mercury couldn't have said it any better.... (Another one bites the dust;) (...) Yo-- 8 wide is 8 wide:-) (...) Moot point for sure, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: 8 wide trolley??? (was new interurban/trolley from MTW —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | "John Neal" <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:39CFB496.1769C5...est.net... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) resorted.... (...) Purely out of curiousity, how long (man hours?) do you expect it to take to dismantle and resort the layout? I have a (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: GMLTC resorting —John Gerlach
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| | | | | | | (...) We've spent about 150 (?) man-hours dismantling and sorting so far, we've got 6 sections - of 14 - pretty much done. We build scenery mostly out of 2x2 and 2x4 bricks, so those are sorted by color into large bins. Smaller pieces we were (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: GMLTC resorting —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I can definitely second this. I use two stage sorting when sorting new sets. Actually, in some cases I use single stage sorting. Certain parts go through single stage sorting, I have three trays from 1298 which have 24 compartments each. Many (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: GMLTC resorting —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | | | | "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:39CFD2F7.7DE1@m...ing.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) What Frank really needs is a bigger house! ;-) Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com PS: This probably doesn't belong in .trains (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: GMLTC resorting —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) I think this is good advice for teardown or cleanup sorting. However I think it's BAD advice for parting out sorting. The kids and I sorted 74 soccer buses and 30 or so Siths over the course of the week in the evenings last week and what we (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: 8 wide trolley??? (was new interurban/trolley from MTW —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Krike! If I had that self imposed rule at my house, I'd never play with bricks again! Right now I have (mostly thanks to my kids) prolly 5 times that in loose bricks to be sorted:-( -John (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 8 wide trolley??? (was new interurban/trolley from MTW —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | "John Neal" <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:39CFCFC2.A51B3B...est.net... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) that (...) Well its a lot to me! I have a bunch more smaller piles lying around my office in these square plastic picnic plates (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: 8 wide trolley??? —John Gerlach
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| | | | (...) I'm not sure there is a flame suit strong enough for me to stand in between the two loudest and most argumentative GMLTC members, but being the fool that I am, I'm going to dive in here. How are we measuring width? Widest part of a locomotive (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: 8 wide trolley??? —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) No flaming here, J-1, because of course you are correct, sir! Just because someone slaps something on their train car that sticks out on the side doesn't make it a bona fide 8 wide.... (hey, I like the sound of that:) The real litmus is (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: 8 wide trolley??? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) <KNOWS he's being trolled but can't resist rising to the bait anyway> Oh, I have the *ability*, I just don't have the *desire*. Why bother with the crutch of the larger amounts of detail possible in the larger scale, when I'm so darn good at 6 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: 8 wide trolley??? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) the (...) er, ah, c/loudest and most argumentative/brightest, hardest working, most photogenic, most eloquent, and just plain nicest pair of/ All kidding aside, it's not really 8 wide, I was just stirring up trouble... As you say, many "6 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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