Pick a brick cup quantities?

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• Bumblepants DFWMember Posts: 6,113

  February 2017 edited February 2017

  A lot depends on how much patience and time you have to assemble the parts into tight stacks that fill every possible crevice. Can't recall an exact number but I got enough 1x4s and 1x2s to finish the top two floors of my Market Street remix in one large cup.

  

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• MorkMan Phoenix, Arizona, USAMember Posts: 861

  February 2017

  @Bumblepants Was that a hundred of each? Quantity?

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• Bumblepants DFWMember Posts: 6,113

  February 2017

  Hard to say, I just stacked them on each other in columns. 1x4s in the middle and 1x2s around the sides. I always stick tiny tiles or plates in the gaps too. It was a year ago so it is fuzzy. I do recall seeing a blog or a post here maybe where someone calculated how much would fit but the goal was to determine if small or large cups were better.

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• Jody Eastern USAMember Posts: 104

  February 2017

  I got 150 2x4 plates stacked together into the cup, and I probably only used 40%-50% of the cup. 

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• Jody Eastern USAMember Posts: 104

  February 2017

  Taking it further and doing some math-
  a 1x1 brick is about .036 cubic inches each. (.312x.312x.375)
  I do not know the actual volume of a PAB cub, but it seems similar to a 32oz fountain soda cup.
  There are .554 fluid ounces in a cubic inch.
  32oz/.554=57.76 cubic inches
  57.76/.036=1604
  Now take away at least 15% for dead space between bricks and you get 1363 bricks roughly.
  
  That is for a 32 oz cup...if you find out the actual PAB volume, you can input t hat number into the formula and figure it out.
  
  
  

  

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• CCC UKMember Posts: 18,236

  February 2017

  
  
  169 2x4s, so 1352 1x1s if you place them really carefully.
  

  

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• MorkMan Phoenix, Arizona, USAMember Posts: 861

  February 2017

  Thanks everyone.  I am going to use 1200 1x1 bricks as my estimate. This way I will have leftovers. 

  

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• Jody Eastern USAMember Posts: 104

  February 2017

  CCC said:

  
  
  169 2x4s, so 1352 1x1s if you place them really carefully.
  

  Wow, my math actually worked!

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• CCC UKMember Posts: 18,236

  February 2017

  Yeah, very close! I imagine stacking 11,s will be very tedious though. I once did it for 2*4 and 2*2s and it took a while.

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• monkeyhanger Member Posts: 2,859

  February 2017

  I stuck 4x1 bricks together in 15 block high "strips" to fit in a large PAB cup recently and some of the parents of kids in the shop (Metrocentre) looked at what I was doing as if I was some kind of nutter.
  
  Some parent allowed their kid to scoop out 3 handfuls of "eye" tile pieces all over the floor and didn't even tell the kid off as a shop employee went and got a dustpan and brush to clean the mess up. Little b'stard!
  

  

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• MorkMan Phoenix, Arizona, USAMember Posts: 861

  February 2017

  Thanks everyone. The savings is already there with the dip and scoop method. If I spend a lot of time in the store it will cost me more since my kids will want me to buy them sets!

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• Astrobricks Minnesota, USMember Posts: 2,707

  February 2017

  ^Go without kids :-)

  

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• madforLEGO Chicagoland USMember Posts: 9,512

  February 2017

  I stopped trying to stack once the PaB Gift boxes stopped. Not really worth it to try to stack square brick into round cups for me.. Maybe if I was getting the small cups... nah, not even then.
  

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• MorkMan Phoenix, Arizona, USAMember Posts: 861

  February 2017

  Astrobricks said:

  ^Go without kids :-)

   That doesn't happen. 

  

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• MaffyD West YorkshireMember Posts: 2,684

  February 2017

  To reinforce @Astrobricks comment, I get nothing done in a Lego Store when my children are around. They think I'm buying for them, for some reason!? :-)

  

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• Kevin_Hyatt UKMember Posts: 778

  February 2017

  I wouldn't bother stacking 1x1 bricks or 1x2 plates. It would take forever and with them being small anyway you'd get tons in just scooping and shaking.

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• nexander Glasgow Member Posts: 897

  February 2017

  Get kids to do the stacking (their small hands are good at it) while you browse and fill the cup. Lets be honest, free labour is the reason we had kids!

  

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• masterX244 GermanyMember Posts: 488

  February 2017

  Kevin_Hyatt said:

  I wouldn't bother stacking 1x1 bricks or 1x2 plates. It would take forever and with them being small anyway you'd get tons in just scooping and shaking.

  i knwo that fun of squeezing parts into a given volume due to my unsorted parts box.. its 105% filled and only works with shaking after it got searched thru...
  

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