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Brick Sorting
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Wed, 1 Jan 2003 15:14:56 GMT
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Being the New Year and all, I made but one resolution that I truly want to
carry out: sorting my Lego collection. Scanning through Brickshelf, I've
noticed a lot of pictures with an array of sorting bins, containers, boxes,
etc. My question to the community is: What technique for sorting do you use?
Please include links to pictures, explanations as to how you made your choice
and just how far down does your sorting go (i.e. "Every brick has it's bin" or
"All red bricks are in 1 container"). I figured I'd ask here first so as to get
a good idea of WHERE to even start ;-)
-alex
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| (...) Alex, The technique used depends on the size of your collection. After a certain point, putting all of a color in a bin becomes excessively difficult to use especially with black. Obviously the "perfect" sort would have all pieces sorted by (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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| When I started organizing, I just used big cupbord pull-out trays. I organized the Bricks first. I put all the red bricks in one tray, all the red slopes in another tray, and all the red inverted slopes in a third tray, as the trays were fairly (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| Hey Alex, So far I have my collection sorted this way: Rarer colors have their own drawer for everything since I don't have a lot of pieces yet. All my Castle and Pirate-specific pieces are grouped together in several large drawers. My basic bricks (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) My experience is it's all about how much Lego you've got. If you've got a collection that's less than, say, 3,000 pieces, you probably don't really even need to sort. In the end I think what it boils down to is how large of a bin/box/drawer (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Nice resolution :) Well, I have a medium small collection (around 4000 parts), so I just decided to purchase several of the drawer storage units, and divided my collection by parts type instead of color. Trust me, sorting by color will only (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi Alex, The other suggestions in this thread may be better for you, but since you asked us to share, I will tell you my methods for sorting... As usual, I will share this in the form of a long babbling story. ;) When I was six (1978) I owned a Fire (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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| (...) Another one of these threads is going to force me to finally do a full photographic documentation of my sorting system, I think. At 250,000 pieces, my collection is fairly large, and is sorted very rigorously. I'd say 99% of the pieces are (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| I think the majority of people agree that sorting pieces by type is much better than by color. After a while though, you get so many colors of the same type that you have to buy more containers and separate those same type pieces by color too. In (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| I am currently in the process of re-sorting most of my collection. I have been using a variety of storage systems. I have the containers for the bulk bricks and various size tilt bins for the more smaller parts. (URL) know some people don't like (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi Alex, Here's my little story of sorting... from early in my rebuilding of a collection to now. When I first began buying bricks again as an adult, sorting wasn't really much of an issue. As soon as it became necessary, I really just started (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| Wow. You all have some great sorting systems. The beauty of this project, as I was telling Tim Courtney earlier today, is that I am in the process of gutting my basement and rebuilding it. I wanted to get a general idea before I started framing and (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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| Hi there! When I first came out of the black cave and picked up this amazing hobby once more my collection was in the 10K size and I realized I needed sorting. I bought a few boxes used to sort screw, nuts and bolts in garages, mounted them on a (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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| Be sure to check out this article as well. (URL) it is not an "all-purpose" sorting solution, the containers presented are pretty cool. Steven (21 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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