Lost instructions: Find out from what sets a collection of parts could origin

mibieri

I almost finished rebuilding my Lego collection from the 90s. There are still many special parts left, like base plates for vehicles, hinges, seats, a prison door, and so on. It seems that I have lost the instructions for several sets. Is there a good strategy to find out which sets this could be, just from having the parts? I'm awara that this is probably only possible for more specific parts.

I browsed in old catalogues, this helped me to find and reconstruct several vehicles, but I can not find matching sets to the parts that are still unused.

Hoddie

If you can find the parts in Brick Owl then it should give you a list of which sets use those parts. Unfortunately the catalogue isn't complete and the gaps in information get bigger the further back you go. A good alternative is www.rebrickable.com - again, you'll need to begin by finding the parts in their database.

You could always upload an image of the parts here and maybe someone can help.

paul'sbricks

Mibieri,

When I was doing the same a few years ago I used www.peeron.com by searching part numbers on the more specific parts then trying to match the set results with either sets I remembered having or sets I could pair other parts into. Some sets weren't economic to try to rebuild though and left me with 1000's of parts left over which led me to start selling here

Paul