How many spare parts do you have?

[Richard Dower]

All my stuff is in ziplock bags, somewhat organised....somewhat   .....i go into my stuff thinking i have of thousands of parts to part out 42056, and soon enough the frickin' thing almost depleted all my stock!!!...wtf?, anyways.....roughly how much stock do you have?

I need numbers people!!

[Myers Lego Technic]

I would estimate that I have some 20 to 30 thousand spare Technic elements lying around at any given time. 

[Richard Dower]

5 minutes ago, Myers Lego Technic said:

I would estimate that I have some 20 to 30 thousand spare Technic elements lying around at any given time. 

Jaysus.....

[Aventador2004]

i have about 5000 technic parts at my disposal

some reg use others for special times

8 minutes ago, Myers Lego Technic said:

I would estimate that I have some 20 to 30 thousand spare Technic elements lying around at any given time. 

how many technic sets do you own

[JunkstyleGio]

According to Brickset i've got aprox 76,000+ parts. Furthermore i've bought/received  about 20,000+ parts in various batches/boxes. Most of the parts are build in sets, MOCs and Doodles. ...

But any set is prone to scavenging for (spare)parts....

 

 

Edited March 19, 2017 by JunkstyleGio

[Dafgek81]

I have taken apart about 10 Technic sets, all and all I have around 55000 elements in my collection.

I have these sets on display:

8868 8862 8110 8482 8258 8285 8459 42054 the blue fury and a massive Actros MOC (6000 parts)

The rest is in pieces.

Edited March 19, 2017 by Dafgek81

[M_longer]

At least 100000 pieces. And probably more are coming :)

[efferman]

parts left or parts build in models, or all parts in complete?

[Richard Dower]

48 minutes ago, efferman said:

parts left or parts build in models, or all parts in complete?

Yes...based on the comments I should have said parts NOT from the models people have built. Spare parts or extras bought In etc.

Edited March 19, 2017 by Richard Dower
Typo

[nychase]

Spare Parts.....over 1M ....not even a question...I keep thinking I have them for a reason but the reality is its time to sell them off.    In addition, a MOC collection 2nd to only Blakbird and nearly every Technic set ever (some omissions for recent non-flagship sets). 

 

 

Edited March 20, 2017 by nychase

[Aventador2004]

Not that many of mine have been bought, probably 25 pieces (I base off sets)

 

[teos]

I keep most of my models built, so spare Technic parts is maybe 4k (5k tops).  Plus a 42042 & 42063 not yet built.

 

Edit: I'm not sure the basis for your question, so I will assume it pertains to how much you should have available for building.  If I were an avid Technic moc builder, I would probably want to keep around 25k or more on hand for projects.  This amount also depends on the scale of the projects.  More is often better.  

Edited March 19, 2017 by teos

[J_C]

All my LEGO parts are spare parts. I never keep anything built for long. 

[Alex Ilea]

Brickset said to me 17K parts :)

[veryrusty]

I've probably got 20-30k parts as moc supplies. Will go up and down with what stages mocs are in. 

[Sprites]

a few thousand? but most of them are 90's stuff.

[suffocation]

Around 140K plus a dozen built models ready to be torn apart as needed (except for 8880 ).

[allanp]

I only have one or two models built at a time so usually about 120,000.

[andythenorth]

About 30k or 40k, and the rest built up (out of sight in the attic).

[ColletArrow]

2 hours ago, J_C said:

All my LEGO parts are spare parts. I never keep anything built for long. 

Similar here, although my models have been hanging around for longer. Typically it will last until I scavenge parts such as a gearbox or pneumatic cylinder for another model. I have no idea how many parts are spare; I guess somewhere around 1,500 are unused at any time. It's a small technic collection at present, 42006 being my biggest set. Only 1 or 2 (pushing it) technic MOCs can be built at a time, but parts may be stolen from elsewhere.

[rollermonkey]

Everyone should edit their numbers to not include black pins. 

;) 

[JJ2]

According to Rebrickable I have 1,285 spare parts not in sets just from my bricklink orders I have made, I'll add about 5k to that from other garage sale buys and round up to say about 6.5k spare parts, probably less though.

[dr_spock]

I estimate 3048 pieces that are not in sets.   Maybe 48 if you take out all the black pins. 

 

 

 

[DrJB]

About 200k for Technic. Double that if I include Non-Technic (e.g. Classic, Friends, Elves, Ninjago, Bionicle, Chima, FLL ...). Just like NYChase, I think it's about time to offload and recoup usage of one bedroom.

[letsbuild]

TOO MANY!!!