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<DIV>Just another option. A few years ago I was building kits for Morris
Hobbies. They would send me the kits and I would return a completed plane. The
planes were sent in standard cardboard boxes, a little oversized. The parts were
wrapped with the rubber matting used for carpet pads. I was able toget the stuff
for next to nothing by going to local floor covering stores and asking for their
scraps from recently completed jobs. With the costs of sending these remnants to
the land fill, they were glad to get a few dollars for them. If you wrap enough
of this stuff around the parts, even the UPS drivers can't damage it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Terry T.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:10:03 -0500 "Gray E Fowler" <<A
href="mailto:gfowler@raytheon.com">gfowler@raytheon.com</A>> writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Tom</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2>I have nothing to add but sympathy. We have had a couple of our planes
crushed in shipment. We are always amazed that the great shipping idiots just
do not really care (I think one plane had tire tracks on it). To protect a
plane from what "could" happen in transit would add huge costs in shipping,
BUT I think I saw the ultimate low cost answer on a package shipped to me
yesterday. On a 100 yd roll of nylon bagging film (practically indestructable)
a label was placed on the box that read " DO NOT CRUSH" and the box was not
crushed, proving that labels have merit. So we at Aeroslave have that label in
6 languages being printed up right now-our problems are solved. I am passing
this on to the rest of the industry for free to protect fellow pattern
dudes.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Gray Fowler<BR>Principal Chemical Engineer<BR>Composites
Engineering</FONT></DIV>
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