Category Archives: Storage

Unloading Some Old Sets

November 4, 2009 – 1:26 pm

From about 1998 – 2002 I accumulated a lot of LEGO sets.  I was very active in the hobby at that time and was regularly scouring Wal-Mart and Target for clearance deals.  I parted out a lot of sets, keeping what I wanted and selling the rest on BrickLink.  Over time a lot of sets [...]

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LEGO Sorting on WikiHow

November 2, 2007 – 9:39 am

NCLUG recently had a sorting thread and this interesting WikiHow article came to light.  Sorting and storage has always been one of the things which has frustrated me with LEGO.  I never seemed to have the right answer.  Right now I am using Plano boxes and LEGO tubs for most of my storage and have [...]

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Looking inside my UTB K8

September 5, 2007 – 9:42 am

Here is the box as I opened it although the baseplates were not stacked so nicely.

I pulled the baseplates out first and set them aside.  I had specifically asked for baseplates because the last time we had the NCLTC layout set up, we were really short of baseplates to cover the open areas of the [...]

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Received my UTB K8!

September 4, 2007 – 10:24 am

This morning as I was sitting at my desk the DHL delivery truck arrived and had a present for me.  I received a K8 of assorted bricks from LEGO for working on the UTB (Hobby Train) project.  For those unfamiliar with the term “K8″, LEGO has several standard box sizes which them ship elements in.  [...]

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Trying to get organized

July 30, 2007 – 1:43 pm

This past weekend I spent a fair amount of time working in my office to try and bring some sense of organization back to the LEGO room.  Ever since we moved it has been pretty disorganized but after the last NCLTC train show, it was really bad.  I have been walking around boxes and the [...]

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