Organizing Lego bricks has always been something of a problem, if you're inclined to categorize. We took a clear plastic lidded box, a SmartStore Classic 31, and cut clear plastic sheets into the proper shape, to divide the box into sections. The sheets are polycarbonate Lexan sheets, 1.5 mms thick, just thin enough to be cuttable with household scissors. Five sheets were used in one direction, giving one compartment for each of the six traditional Lego colors. Compartment width was chosen to match the relative frequency of each color.
Where the sheets cross each other, we cut out a thin rectangle from both sheets, from the top to the center in one sheet, and from the bottom to the center in the other, to form a cross halving joint. It was helpful to drill a 2 mm hole at the inner edge of the rectangle, and then make two parallel cuts from the side to the hole. We fastened the plastic sheets with hot glue to the box. One long sheet was placed perpendicular to the six shorter ones, to stabilize and to separate thin and thick bricks.
Here is the box with the divisions in place and filled with our supply of bricks.
Looks like a clever storage - very efficient! But what about your other lego? Space lego and the rest?
ReplyDeleteThey had to go into an 'not-quite-acceptable-bricks' box, unfortunately :)
DeleteI have thought about them as "special" pieces... Anyway, since they are hard to categorize, they are in a box of their own. Technic lego also have their own box.
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