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Re: R-1820 Engine shipping crate

Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:18 pm

Rather than make your display 'line shack' out of very heavy and hard to move (and expensive by the B.F.) 1" thick lumber. I'd suggest gluing plywood door skins (1/8th in thick) to both sides of a 3/4" thick piece of hard blue insulation and paint that O.D. that way, no one gets a hernia trying to erect, knock down, or move the thing, you can even cut the door skins and glue to the edges of the panel. If you do it so the topper piece has a protruding keyway in the lower edge that slots into a groove in the top edge of the bottom piece and helps make it all more stable and easy to assemble.
Weigh it all down with 1 gallon plastic milk jugs full of water and it should be pretty bulletproof and the milk jugs can be disguised by 'stuff' piled up on the bottom.

Re: R-1820 Engine shipping crate

Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:35 pm

Roger that! THANKS!! :drink3:
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