A convenient Lego Ruler and Sorting guide you can print at home...

tomalphin

I wanted to share something I designed to help me sort through a lot of Lego as it might be helpful to you too. It's a handy ruler you can use to measure Lego bricks and plates. It is especially convenient for Technic parts such as axles, liftarms and angled connectors.


A Lego Ruler and Sorting Tool you can print at home

It's designed to fit on both US 8.5x11 inch and European A4 paper, and it has separate rulers for measuring bricks by height and by width.

LINK:
Lego Ruler and Sorting Tool

If it's useful, share it with others, if you have ideas to make it better, let me know! Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Sincerely,
---tom

starfire2

Awesome. Thank you. I printed one out.

chuckp

^^ I saw this on your blog post and thought "Wow, that looks really handy". Thanks for posting.

Also, for those who don't have access to a laminating machine, clear contact paper works too. It's a pain to work with, but it will do the job.

Bluefairy_56

I will be printing and laminating this on the weekend. Thank you so much.

FenrisAkashi

Awesome stuff! Thanks for posting @henrysunset‌

kekeke

Really useful stuff, thanks!!

GentlyBenevolent

Just like to say "DITTO" to the above comments, I have 9 x 48 litre tubs filled with loose Lego, (I have sorted it by colour but not by size/ shape etc. In hindsight this is proberly a mistake!).
I do use the Lego ruler ( #852759-1 ) but find it a pain, so I have printed 1 off & laminated it, so much easier that the official Lego item.....
A bit thank you from me.

BuriedinBricks

I noticed this on your blog last night. Excellent idea.

ACWWGal2011

GentlyBenevolent said:

Just like to say "DITTO" to the above comments, I have 9 x 48 litre tubs filled with loose Lego, (I have sorted it by colour but not by size/ shape etc. In hindsight this is proberly a mistake!).
I do use the Lego ruler ( #852759-1 ) but find it a pain, so I have printed 1 off & laminated it, so much easier that the official Lego item.....
A bit thank you from me.

yea, by color really doesn't work unless as a sub catagory. I do the by type method and only do by color when theres to much in the container

TheLoneTensor

I am exactly the opposite actually, sort by color mostly, then by type or general size if it makes sense to do so, with some select pieces or family of pieces (technic groups, trans element groups, animals, rare/treasure-ish things, spooky things, etc.) grouped by type, regardless of color. Basically, if any box gets too difficult to root through, it get sorted further (or it gets a bigger box).

Sorting greatly depends on what and how you build also, so different methods work for different folks.

vwong19

Very cool! It looks so clean. Anyone have a Lego color palette that they also use to distinguish between light blue, maersk blue, etc?

TheLoneTensor

vwong19 said:

Very cool! It looks so clean. Anyone have a Lego color palette that they also use to distinguish between light blue, maersk blue, etc?

No such palette would be very useful unless printed out, in which case, no printer out there (even Lego's own) does a very good job of differentiating really close colors like that.

Then again, you could hold the part up to your screen.

ACWWGal2011

Grr. worded that wrong. I should of said "color really doesn't work unless it's paired with a by part method"

Pitfall69

I actually make a color "palette" out of bricks/plates to distinguish between light gray and bley or dark grey and dark bley.

Pitfall69

I'm also very anal about my bricks. I separate them according to time period as well. The molds are different, so I actually look inside the bricks/plates as well. If I need to complete a late 70's early 80's set, I have a parts bin just for that.

chuckp

^ Same here. My old classic space Lego does not get mixed with modern Lego. It just doesn't seem right.

Bobflip

Nice work! Should definitely come in handy.
As it happens, I was randomly looking for something similar to this a couple of days ago, but for the rubber bands. Does one of those exist anywhere?

GentlyBenevolent

I have just noticed 1 little flaw with the ruler on the right hand side, it has 2 "5's" on it, but it is still a brilliant tool & sorry to find fault with your hard work.
Sorry

tomalphin

@Bobflip‌ , not sure if such a thing exists, but I would certainly be willing to help make one if someone sent me the various sizes.

@GentlyBenevolent‌, I will fix it and create a version 2.0 sometime soon. Good eyes!

bluemoose

I've kept copies of the dimension guides from this site on my work bench for many years -
http://onyx.malagraphixia.com/storage/lego_storage.htm

Larrys01

I've used this ruler for a number of years now. It's small and made for Lego & Technic pieces. I find it very handy and I like that it doesn't take up a lot of space. http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Designer-Includes-Brick-Separator/dp/B004C336NO/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1395585771&sr=8-5&keywords=lego+ruler