Does this stress the plates when they're kept half-interlocked for a long time? Has anyone ever had them start cracking from it?
The Brittle Brown plates are kept seperated of course.
This is my little slice of heaven at home. Hundreds of tiny drawers filled with sorted technic pieces.
The 10 sorting cabinets hanging from the wall are from Raaco with each 40 small drawers, 3 mediums and one large. Hanging under the table are 10 transparent drawers which are meant to be hung in kitchen cabinets. But they are perfect to put all the technic beams in. With some minor modifications they're looking pretty clean now.
The black ikea drawers are where i'm putting all the system pieces. Still working on that. Technic panels are also in there.
This one i've had to modify too, so that the top drawers would come farther out from under the overhanging table top. I bought 4 sets of heavy duty sliders which are actually too long for this cabinet. By drilling holes in the thin back and sticking them out, it became possible to over-extend the drawer. I know short sliders that allow for over-extension exist too, however, those turned out to be a few millimeters too thick to fit between the drawer and the cabinet's side. So this was the only solution, which is working perfectly.
Right by the table i made a tool rack built with magnet bricks and a few broken pieces, to give them a second life. An 8 long axle to push other axles through, a make-shift brush for the dusty bricks, tweezers and small pliers to get into tight spots and lastly the all powerful brick seperator (which i barely use as a technic builder)
Beside the table is a drawer stack for all the electronics, with another one coming where i'll put all the small to medium wheels in, which are now temporarily stored in the yellow container. The green tub below are all the system pieces that are yet to be sorted into the ikea drawers.
And oh man, that tub of black pins 🤤 Sometimes i just sit and rummage my hand around in it. It's like asmr for touch and sound.
This room, like most hobby rooms i imagine, has seriously evolved over the years. I can still clearly remember playing on the floor as a kid with all my lego splashed out across the room. Then my dad got sick of stepping on them so he made me a simple table to build on.
And the rest is history.
This one is inspired by some of the exotic spaceships from No Man's Sky.
I'm a technic guy through and through so it was nice to switch things up a bit with this build!
...and yes i am aware that it looks like a hair dryer or some scifi gun 😅
Hello folks! I have pretty deep drawers where i keep a lot of my bricks. But the sorting bins i have now are only like half the depth of them. And the small sorting trays are even shallower.
Do you guys know of any affordable alternatives that would occupy the space more efficiently?
FYI, as you can see in the second pic, the height is about 15 cm (6 inches)
It's a requirement that everything is directly accessible, so none of those screw boxes with a lid you have to open first. I don't like those. Lastly, transparent plastic is preffered, as it's handy to see the bricks at the bottom when i'm looking for a specific colour.
I'm curious to hear if you know of any other options! Thanks