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Re: Brick Sorting
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:02:30 GMT
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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 small. I repeated this for all my colors, however,
sometimes I needed to have two trays of some parts, (such as gray bricks)
and combined other colors, (such as yellow and blue, I don't have much of
those.) I also put large bricks and plates in other trays. I pulled out
trays when needed to build on the floor or desk.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=249194
The units cost $10 each at Home Depot.
I then took the smaller parts, such as 'greeblies,' cones, wedges,
cylinders, hinges, etc, and organized them by type, not color.
The larger sized groups, such as wedges and hinges, I put into the pull-out
trays. The smaller sized groups (like taps, turntables, flags, headlight
bricks, etc, I put into smaller fishing tackle boxes. The bigger ones went
for about $5, the little ones came 2 for $1.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=249196
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=249200
I sometimes have to reorganize, as the parts spill over and fall out.
I'm still organizing some more more 'useless' color pieces and rarer parts,
but my advise would be to start with the parts you use the most, usually
bricks, then go on to common specialized pieces, then to rarer colors and
pieces.
Hope this helps!
-JHK
In lugnet.general, Alex Cruz writes:
> 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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