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| | | Author: | Stuart9  | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2022 17:28 | | Subject: | Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 198 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I don’t want to spend hours going through the numerous strings regarding storage,
I still might not find what I want.
Would someone in the U.K. be kind enough to point me in the right direction for
a good storage system for my stock, like most I don’t want to spend too much
but I don’t want something that won’t last very long.
I expect i’ll need a large number of boxes/trays to cover all the categories
/ groupings.
Looking to push stock towards 200,000 pieces once I start up again.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Stuart
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| | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2022 22:10 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I don’t want to spend hours going through the numerous strings regarding storage,
I still might not find what I want.
Would someone in the U.K. be kind enough to point me in the right direction for
a good storage system for my stock, like most I don’t want to spend too much
but I don’t want something that won’t last very long.
I expect i’ll need a large number of boxes/trays to cover all the categories
/ groupings.
Looking to push stock towards 200,000 pieces once I start up again.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Stuart
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Here's what I use:-
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1192880
To give you an idea the main small draws can hold over 150 minifigure heads but
if you choose to insert dividers (optional extra) like shown in my photo you
can split each draw into 3 sections which will allow you to store around 50 heads
in each.
Cheapest place to buy them at the moment would be:-
https://cpc.farnell.com/raaco/126762/cabinet-organiser-44-compartment/dp/SG32824?st=raaco
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| | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 03:59 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Thank you.
Now I need to get my head around how many I need and which ones work best.
Much appreciated.
In Help, infinibrix writes:
| | In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I don’t want to spend hours going through the numerous strings regarding storage,
I still might not find what I want.
Would someone in the U.K. be kind enough to point me in the right direction for
a good storage system for my stock, like most I don’t want to spend too much
but I don’t want something that won’t last very long.
I expect i’ll need a large number of boxes/trays to cover all the categories
/ groupings.
Looking to push stock towards 200,000 pieces once I start up again.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Stuart
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Here's what I use:-
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1192880
To give you an idea the main small draws can hold over 150 minifigure heads but
if you choose to insert dividers (optional extra) like shown in my photo you
can split each draw into 3 sections which will allow you to store around 50 heads
in each.
Cheapest place to buy them at the moment would be:-
https://cpc.farnell.com/raaco/126762/cabinet-organiser-44-compartment/dp/SG32824?st=raaco
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 05:59 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | Thank you.
Now I need to get my head around how many I need and which ones work best.
Much appreciated.
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Raaco do quite a few different cabinet options but their 44 compartment 126762
seem to be their best value units and the ones I always use. In fact you can
actually divide those small draws down into other different sized combinations
too (max 4 sections)
The larger draws have their own dividers and whilst I would recommend them for
the bottom draw in particular they do add quite a bit to overall cost of cabinets:-
https://cpc.farnell.com/raaco/131681/dividers-15-mixed-pack/dp/SG32977?MER=sy-me-pd-mi-acce
Might be worth contacting CPC beforehand as they might do you a bit of a deal
if buying multiple units/dividers
For any parts much larger than a pair of legs I just use simple bags and store
in a regular storage box
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| | | | | Author: | BrickCompulsion | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 04:35 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Morning
I currently have about 280k parts and use a combination of drawers (aldi ones
and screwfix)
and plastic boxes with lids with grip seal bags in them. Some boxes are shoe
boxed size (about 240) and then some larger ones (about 3x the size of the shoe
boxes) (10 of them)
They are all pretty full (probably 85-90% full)
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| | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 04:59 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Thank you, I’ll probably use a combination of storage like yourself.
Need to improve what I have, works but needs to be quicker.
In Help, BrickCompulsion writes:
| | Morning
I currently have about 280k parts and use a combination of drawers (aldi ones
and screwfix)
and plastic boxes with lids with grip seal bags in them. Some boxes are shoe
boxed size (about 240) and then some larger ones (about 3x the size of the shoe
boxes) (10 of them)
They are all pretty full (probably 85-90% full)
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | BrickCompulsion | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 06:49 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | Thank you, I’ll probably use a combination of storage like yourself.
Need to improve what I have, works but needs to be quicker.
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Yeah I find it picks pretty quickly. If its single parts then the drawers mean
i pick 4 or 5 in a minute probably. its getting better as I only invested in
the drawers about a year ago and so I had (and still have) single small parts
in the boxes which does take a bit longer to pick. As I have grown the storage
has adapted and its now all about speed of pick. Now as I list bits, it goes
in an appropriate storage choice depending on number and size of the part
Not that I am selling much at the mo - spending my time actually building stuff
at the mo!
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 10:30 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | Thank you, I’ll probably use a combination of storage like yourself.
Need to improve what I have, works but needs to be quicker.
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I think it all depends on variety and quantity.
I’m not a seller but for building, I have about 80k parts neatly stored. 2000
types, 6000 if you count colours.
I can pull out parts for a MOC in a few minutes (I did a 300 parts in 70 lots
yesterday, it didn’t take me 15 min).
(My picking lists aren’t sorted and they don’t indicate the emplacement, so there’s
room for improvement.)
The parts are stored in:
a. 4 fishing-bait boxes: small compartments and a hinged lid,
b. 12 small-drawers cabinets (similar to those linked earlier, ca. 30 drawers
each),
(wait for Aldi or Lidl to sell them at €10, otherwise plastic case = €20+,
metal case = €30+),
c. 60 towers of 3 18x24x4 studs drawers, (about 7€ each),
d. 4 towers of 3 or 4 27x44x8 studs drawers, (about 15€ the 3 drawers tower,
20€ for 4),
e. a few random boxes for never-used or very big parts (old boat hulls, rail
tracks…).
If I had to do it over, I think I would not buy the cabinets: yes the big drawers
are big, but:
0. The flat boxes with hinged lid are a pain: they are never stacked in the correct
order and I need two hands and a flat surface to pick in them.
1. Smaller drawers fill up more easily. Parts that take more than one drawer
are a pain.
Some parts, I start with very few… and then I have more and more and need to
reorganize and shuffle drawers around.
2. Small parts: I can’t pick them with my cocktail sausages… er I mean, my fingers,
and I can’t upend the whole drawer because it’s generally divided (remember:
small parts), so I use tweezers.
Sure, I could put them in baggies… but get the baggy out, open the baggy (needs
two hands), drop the parts out of the baggy, put back the parts I don’t need,
pick up the ones that fell on the ground, close the baggy, put the baggy back
in… guh.
Plus, baggies don’t fit in the drawers or you fit fewer parts per volume this
way.
That the parts are in smaller drawer brings nothing more than having to open
more drawers. A big drawer with the same size divisions would (and does) work
better.
3. For bigger parts, or parts I have in greater quantities, they generally align
(stack but not connect) easily and I can separate colours in the same drawer
easily.
4. For smaller or more rambunctious parts (e.g. 1x1 plates or bricks), a solution
I have is paper cups: half-boxes in paper. I separate by colour inside the drawers
this way.
Smaller drawers = smaller cups but the a. compartements, and b. and c. drawers
are about the same height. A bigger drawer just fits more of them and I have
fewer drawers to open.
Thing is, it’s the paper cups that make my system. They are flexible in every
way: different sizes, easy to handle, can be pushed around and forced to fit
where plastic cups wouldn’t. And they are dirt cheap and eco-friendly.
Otherwise, I’ve seen a few people use pharmacy cabinets: large but shallow drawers
with compartments inside. Very neat but very expensive. (TLG designers seem
to have them.)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 11:19 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Cheers, given me some other ideas I hadn’t considered.
I suspect I’ll try a few ideas out and adapt as I go.
They’re sorted by category in bags but still within a single large box by colour.
Looks like the single colour separation in large boxes will go.
The new will be transferred to bags and not kept in original set boxes so that
I can find just as easily as the used and clear more space.
In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | Thank you, I’ll probably use a combination of storage like yourself.
Need to improve what I have, works but needs to be quicker.
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I think it all depends on variety and quantity.
I’m not a seller but for building, I have about 80k parts neatly stored. 2000
types, 6000 if you count colours.
I can pull out parts for a MOC in a few minutes (I did a 300 parts in 70 lots
yesterday, it didn’t take me 15 min).
(My picking lists aren’t sorted and they don’t indicate the emplacement, so there’s
room for improvement.)
The parts are stored in:
a. 4 fishing-bait boxes: small compartments and a hinged lid,
b. 12 small-drawers cabinets (similar to those linked earlier, ca. 30 drawers
each),
(wait for Aldi or Lidl to sell them at €10, otherwise plastic case = €20+,
metal case = €30+),
c. 60 towers of 3 18x24x4 studs drawers, (about 7€ each),
d. 4 towers of 3 or 4 27x44x8 studs drawers, (about 15€ the 3 drawers tower,
20€ for 4),
e. a few random boxes for never-used or very big parts (old boat hulls, rail
tracks…).
If I had to do it over, I think I would not buy the cabinets: yes the big drawers
are big, but:
0. The flat boxes with hinged lid are a pain: they are never stacked in the correct
order and I need two hands and a flat surface to pick in them.
1. Smaller drawers fill up more easily. Parts that take more than one drawer
are a pain.
Some parts, I start with very few… and then I have more and more and need to
reorganize and shuffle drawers around.
2. Small parts: I can’t pick them with my cocktail sausages… er I mean, my fingers,
and I can’t upend the whole drawer because it’s generally divided (remember:
small parts), so I use tweezers.
Sure, I could put them in baggies… but get the baggy out, open the baggy (needs
two hands), drop the parts out of the baggy, put back the parts I don’t need,
pick up the ones that fell on the ground, close the baggy, put the baggy back
in… guh.
Plus, baggies don’t fit in the drawers or you fit fewer parts per volume this
way.
That the parts are in smaller drawer brings nothing more than having to open
more drawers. A big drawer with the same size divisions would (and does) work
better.
3. For bigger parts, or parts I have in greater quantities, they generally align
(stack but not connect) easily and I can separate colours in the same drawer
easily.
4. For smaller or more rambunctious parts (e.g. 1x1 plates or bricks), a solution
I have is paper cups: half-boxes in paper. I separate by colour inside the drawers
this way.
Smaller drawers = smaller cups but the a. compartements, and b. and c. drawers
are about the same height. A bigger drawer just fits more of them and I have
fewer drawers to open.
Thing is, it’s the paper cups that make my system. They are flexible in every
way: different sizes, easy to handle, can be pushed around and forced to fit
where plastic cups wouldn’t. And they are dirt cheap and eco-friendly.
Otherwise, I’ve seen a few people use pharmacy cabinets: large but shallow drawers
with compartments inside. Very neat but very expensive. (TLG designers seem
to have them.)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 11:39 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
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2. Small parts: I can’t pick them with my cocktail sausages… er I mean, my fingers,
and I can’t upend the whole drawer because it’s generally divided (remember:
small parts), so I use tweezers.
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Oh this struggle with small parts in divided trays or drawers; I always cringe
when I read about those. Much better is separate boxes in this tray, so that
you can either pick out a single brick, or upend the whole box and pick a whole
hand full.
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4. For smaller or more rambunctious parts (e.g. 1x1 plates or bricks), a solution
I have is paper cups: half-boxes in paper. I separate by colour inside the drawers
this way.
Smaller drawers = smaller cups but the a. compartements, and b. and c. drawers
are about the same height. A bigger drawer just fits more of them and I have
fewer drawers to open.
Thing is, it’s the paper cups that make my system. They are flexible in every
way: different sizes, easy to handle, can be pushed around and forced to fit
where plastic cups wouldn’t. And they are dirt cheap and eco-friendly.
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Indeed: paper cups or boxes. The smaller ones I use are hand folded out of paper,
but could just as easily be empty match boxes or similar. The larger ones are
the bottom of tetrapack cartons. Costs: only time and a little water to clean
them (and friendly co-workers who collected them when my LEGO collection grew
harder than my collection of tetrapack cups). Also very handy: the drawers can
be taken out completely single handedly.
And of course you will always need ziplocks for the overflow, which I have in
some 40 l big storage boxes.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 11:53 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Thank you, love those storage drawers.
In Help, hpoort writes:
| | In Help, SylvainLS writes:
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2. Small parts: I can’t pick them with my cocktail sausages… er I mean, my fingers,
and I can’t upend the whole drawer because it’s generally divided (remember:
small parts), so I use tweezers.
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Oh this struggle with small parts in divided trays or drawers; I always cringe
when I read about those. Much better is separate boxes in this tray, so that
you can either pick out a single brick, or upend the whole box and pick a whole
hand full.
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4. For smaller or more rambunctious parts (e.g. 1x1 plates or bricks), a solution
I have is paper cups: half-boxes in paper. I separate by colour inside the drawers
this way.
Smaller drawers = smaller cups but the a. compartements, and b. and c. drawers
are about the same height. A bigger drawer just fits more of them and I have
fewer drawers to open.
Thing is, it’s the paper cups that make my system. They are flexible in every
way: different sizes, easy to handle, can be pushed around and forced to fit
where plastic cups wouldn’t. And they are dirt cheap and eco-friendly.
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Indeed: paper cups or boxes. The smaller ones I use are hand folded out of paper,
but could just as easily be empty match boxes or similar. The larger ones are
the bottom of tetrapack cartons. Costs: only time and a little water to clean
them (and friendly co-workers who collected them when my LEGO collection grew
harder than my collection of tetrapack cups). Also very handy: the drawers can
be taken out completely single handedly.
And of course you will always need ziplocks for the overflow, which I have in
some 40 l big storage boxes.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 12:39 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I assumed that they were home made, excellent quality, very impressed.
Thanks for the info, all these options will be looked at so that I can find what
works for me.
In Help, hpoort writes:
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2022 12:16 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, hpoort writes:
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Oh this struggle with small parts in divided trays or drawers; I always cringe
when I read about those. Much better is separate boxes in this tray, so that
you can either pick out a single brick, or upend the whole box and pick a whole
hand full.
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I also have tiny cups in the small drawers (no, not OCD at all!)… but I can generally
get them out easily.
I remembered I had pics from the last big shuffle (so I could update my “database”),
so here’s one.
(One can see the 1x2 round plates were starting to overflow from their drawer
into the quarter tiles….)
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Indeed: paper cups or boxes.
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Great minds think alike… 
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 03:14 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | I’m not a seller but for building, I have about 80k parts neatly stored. 2000
types, 6000 if you count colours.
If I had to do it over, I think I would not buy the cabinets: yes the big drawers
are big, but:
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Did you mean to say this?
| | 0. The flat boxes with hinged lid are a pain: they are never stacked in the correct
order and I need two hands and a flat surface to pick in them.
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Agreed I still use a few double sided clear tackle boxes with hinged lid for
a few small bits but not many, as like you say it takes longer to get to parts
and they end up randomly stacked or worse still not even put away properly (They
tend to get left wherever it was you last picked some parts from them and you
can be forever hunting around picking up the wrong tackle boxes trying to find
the correct one you need!)
The same can sometimes be said for large storage boxes filled with bags but because
of their size they can be labeled more clearly and most likely already have their
own specific home/spot on a shelf which is important but does also mean that
the cheapest solutions will still require some form of shelving if its to remain
organised and that in itself can bring the overall cost up significantly and
when you consider you still have to remove lids, open bags and potentially remove
boxes from shelves this does make cabinets with drawers(ideally removable) the
way to go for as many parts as you can get away with doing this way
| | 1. Smaller drawers fill up more easily. Parts that take more than one drawer
are a pain.
Some parts, I start with very few… and then I have more and more and need to
reorganize and shuffle drawers around.
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I think its different for a seller though because you only need to focus on having
one draw allocated to a part and so if your draw only holds 150 pieces and yet
you have 300 pieces rather than allowing that part to take up and waste a second
draw or moving all the parts to a bigger draw its best to just bag the excess
parts and put them into backup storage and then just top up the draw as and when
its getting low. From a builders perspective yes I think I would want all my
identical parts in the same location but as a seller I think its better to have
quick access to a decent quantity of your stock but not necessarily the entire
quantity of that part. On the rare occasion someone orders more than I have available
in my quick access draw I'm more than happy to rummage around a little further
for the remainder!
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 04:57 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, infinibrix writes:
| | In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | I’m not a seller but for building, I have about 80k parts neatly stored. 2000
types, 6000 if you count colours.
If I had to do it over, I think I would not buy the cabinets: yes the big drawers
are big, but:
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Did you mean to say this?
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Er, yes, I generally mean what I say 
I meant that one could fear that bigger drawers would be too big and wouldn’t
allow to store small parts / small quantities, and then I tried to explain why
it’s not true.
| | | | 0. The flat boxes with hinged lid are a pain: they are never stacked in the correct
order and I need two hands and a flat surface to pick in them.
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Agreed I still use a few double sided clear tackle boxes
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Ah yes, “tackle box,” not “bait box”
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a few small bits but not many, as like you say it takes longer to get to parts
and they end up randomly stacked or worse still not even put away properly (They
tend to get left wherever it was you last picked some parts from them and you
can be forever hunting around picking up the wrong tackle boxes trying to find
the correct one you need!)
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| | 1. Smaller drawers fill up more easily. Parts that take more than one drawer
are a pain.
Some parts, I start with very few… and then I have more and more and need to
reorganize and shuffle drawers around.
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I think its different for a seller though because you only need to focus on having
one draw allocated to a part and so if your draw only holds 150 pieces and yet
you have 300 pieces rather than allowing that part to take up and waste a second
draw or moving all the parts to a bigger draw its best to just bag the excess
parts and put them into backup storage and then just top up the draw as and when
its getting low. From a builders perspective yes I think I would want all my
identical parts in the same location but as a seller I think its better to have
quick access to a decent quantity of your stock but not necessarily the entire
quantity of that part. On the rare occasion someone orders more than I have available
in my quick access draw I'm more than happy to rummage around a little further
for the remainder!
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I was talking about parts that you have fewer than 20.
You can’t use a drawer for just one mould when you have 50 such lots. And drawers
can often only be divided in two or three. An entire cabinet of almost empty
drawers… or one or two drawer with paper cups (or baggies).
It also depends if your stock is broad or deep but some parts, like minifigure
utensils, even the bigger stores don’t have many of each mould.
And I was also thinking about newer moulds: they start rare and you may get a
dozen if you part out multiple copies of the same set, but then, 6 months or
a year later, they are common and need their own drawer… or maybe they will never
be used much.
It’s hard to balance planning for room to expand and not keeping empty drawers.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 06:25 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
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I think its different for a seller though because you only need to focus on having
one draw allocated to a part and so if your draw only holds 150 pieces and yet
you have 300 pieces rather than allowing that part to take up and waste a second
draw or moving all the parts to a bigger draw its best to just bag the excess
parts and put them into backup storage and then just top up the draw as and when
its getting low. From a builders perspective yes I think I would want all my
identical parts in the same location but as a seller I think its better to have
quick access to a decent quantity of your stock but not necessarily the entire
quantity of that part. On the rare occasion someone orders more than I have available
in my quick access draw I'm more than happy to rummage around a little further
for the remainder!
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I was talking about parts that you have fewer than 20.
You can’t use a drawer for just one mould when you have 50 such lots. And drawers
can often only be divided in two or three. An entire cabinet of almost empty
drawers… or one or two drawer with paper cups (or baggies).
It also depends if your stock is broad or deep but some parts, like minifigure
utensils, even the bigger stores don’t have many of each mould.
And I was also thinking about newer moulds: they start rare and you may get a
dozen if you part out multiple copies of the same set, but then, 6 months or
a year later, they are common and need their own drawer… or maybe they will never
be used much.
It’s hard to balance planning for room to expand and not keeping empty drawers.
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I think every storage system requires a degree of shifting things around particularly
when you categorize by mold (Design I.D) or item category and the same is for
me though a few things I tend to do is where I have a column of descending draws
with either the same design I.D or part type, where I have lots of the same colour/part
they generally get their own draw and as I get down to the lower draws two of
three colours may share the same draw using dividers plus in the very bottom
draw I may even place odd colours/parts to share the same section too so long
as they stand out enough. Obviously I wouldn't stick one dark brown hair
piece in among 50 black pieces of the same design but I would stick 1 Tan, 8
orange in with say 20 black or some odd swords mixed in with some different swords
or even some axes so long as quantities are low. If a new colour of a Design
I.D or a new type of sword comes along I usually make way for it by simply using
a divider to split down a part that currently has a draw to itself so that it
now shares a draw instead. Having quick access to 200 of the same part is nice
but I will settle for reducing the access to 100 of that part if it means making
ways for new colours/parts plus as items sell out or reduce in size new space
is always being created that way too!
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 06:40 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I don’t want to spend hours going through the numerous strings regarding storage,
I still might not find what I want.
Would someone in the U.K. be kind enough to point me in the right direction for
a good storage system for my stock, like most I don’t want to spend too much
but I don’t want something that won’t last very long.
I expect i’ll need a large number of boxes/trays to cover all the categories
/ groupings.
Looking to push stock towards 200,000 pieces once I start up again.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Stuart
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Although they normally tend to sell out quick, my local Aldi still had some of
their storage racks in stock yesterday. But they were only the ones with the
larger containers down the middle and not the small drawers across the whole
thing. If you have one local to you. you might also get lucky.
Although when I bought mine, I made sure to get their early on the first day
and bought the six with smaller drawers that the store had and have added to
them a couple at a time when they come in again.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Stuart9 | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 06:50 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Thank you, I’ll try that.
I noticed that the online info says they are sold out.
In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I don’t want to spend hours going through the numerous strings regarding storage,
I still might not find what I want.
Would someone in the U.K. be kind enough to point me in the right direction for
a good storage system for my stock, like most I don’t want to spend too much
but I don’t want something that won’t last very long.
I expect i’ll need a large number of boxes/trays to cover all the categories
/ groupings.
Looking to push stock towards 200,000 pieces once I start up again.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Stuart
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Although they normally tend to sell out quick, my local Aldi still had some of
their storage racks in stock yesterday. But they were only the ones with the
larger containers down the middle and not the small drawers across the whole
thing. If you have one local to you. you might also get lucky.
Although when I bought mine, I made sure to get their early on the first day
and bought the six with smaller drawers that the store had and have added to
them a couple at a time when they come in again.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | BrickCompulsion | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 07:44 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I did see a post on FB that said Lidl get them later in the year. I accept no
responsibility if this is not correct as I don't know ! ha ha
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 07:46 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, BrickCompulsion writes:
| | I did see a post on FB that said Lidl get them later in the year. I accept no
responsibility if this is not correct as I don't know ! ha ha
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I think they both do them a couple of times a year. It is just a case of looking
out when they get them at a local store.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 08:19 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, BrickCompulsion writes:
| | I did see a post on FB that said Lidl get them later in the year. I accept no
responsibility if this is not correct as I don't know ! ha ha
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I think they both do them a couple of times a year. It is just a case of looking
out when they get them at a local store.
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It’s been a couple years I haven’t seen them advertized in Lidl’s flyers & app
though.
And they are advertizing LEGO Ninjago bed sets for next Monday…
Small size… 
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 08:26 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, BrickCompulsion writes:
| | I did see a post on FB that said Lidl get them later in the year. I accept no
responsibility if this is not correct as I don't know ! ha ha
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I think they both do them a couple of times a year. It is just a case of looking
out when they get them at a local store.
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It’s been a couple years I haven’t seen them advertized in Lidl’s flyers & app
though.
And they are advertizing LEGO Ninjago bed sets for next Monday…
Small size…
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Just get two or more, split them down the side and sew them together
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 05:42 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | Thank you, I’ll try that.
I noticed that the online info says they are sold out.
In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I don’t want to spend hours going through the numerous strings regarding storage,
I still might not find what I want.
Would someone in the U.K. be kind enough to point me in the right direction for
a good storage system for my stock, like most I don’t want to spend too much
but I don’t want something that won’t last very long.
I expect i’ll need a large number of boxes/trays to cover all the categories
/ groupings.
Looking to push stock towards 200,000 pieces once I start up again.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Stuart
|
Although they normally tend to sell out quick, my local Aldi still had some of
their storage racks in stock yesterday. But they were only the ones with the
larger containers down the middle and not the small drawers across the whole
thing. If you have one local to you. you might also get lucky.
Although when I bought mine, I made sure to get their early on the first day
and bought the six with smaller drawers that the store had and have added to
them a couple at a time when they come in again.
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I got one of each delivered from Online on Friday I will probably get another
of the 33 drawer ones as for me those will be the more useful, as I want to avoid
using the resealable bags which I have used at the moment in the bigger blue
drawers. Due to quantity I have for some of the more common parts I split them
over multiple drawers these were 1 x 1 plates, 1 x 1 round plates and 1 x 1 slopes
- with the first one I was able to just split between solid colours and trans
colours, with the other two I had to split the solid colours further to light
and dark
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| | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 07:45 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | Although they normally tend to sell out quick, my local Aldi still had some of
their storage racks in stock yesterday. But they were only the ones with the
larger containers down the middle and not the small drawers across the whole
thing. If you have one local to you. you might also get lucky.
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My mistake, they are big ones down the sides not down the middle.
The quality is very good for the price, and they are ideal for lots of smaller
parts and minifigs and parts. I don't use them for larger parts as the total
volume of all parts is too big, there I tend to use Really Useful Boxes sometimes
with insert trays or (like others have shown) large drawers with plastic tubs/trays
inside for 2x2 bricks and bigger. For 1x4s and 2x4s where the total volume is
huge, I just use a large storage box for each type with bags inside for each
colour. I rarely use a single 1x4 brick, if I am using them chances are I will
need a few hundred, so taking down a big box is not an issue when I need them.
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France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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