Funny story about camouflaging stuff in cars. I decided to upgrade my car stereo a number of cars ago, and built small enclosures for a pair of really, really expensive JBL speakers. Rather than use good looking cabinet grade plywood, I picked up some exterior grade sheathing that no amount of alcohol would make pretty. I also took the nameplates off the speakers. They looked Iike 10 dollar speakers, but sounded like the thousand dollars I paid for them. I didn't want them to be bait.
I let the speakers go with the car as the boxes were sized for it, and let the stereo go as well. I talked to the new owner a few months later and asked how he liked the stereo I had put in. He said it was great. He hadn't listened to it until after he had tossed the junk speakers and had bought "good ones". He wasn't especially happy when I told him the speakers he had tossed were worth more than double what he had put in. Anyway, those really cheap white Styrofoam coolers are great for hiding stuff in. bill On Mon., Apr. 12, 2021, 5:04 p.m. Larry Colen, <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like a better way of storing camera gear which keeps it well > protected, and ideally in a manner that if someone sees it in my van > doesn’t scream that it is filled with valuables. > > My clever idea is that I could make trays that fit in an ice chest to hold > lenses, speed lights etc. Ice chests are weather resistant, and with their > double wall construction, would provide better protection than the standard > camera bag. There would be some sort of trick to making the trays to hold > lenses, or whatever. > > I doubt that I am the first person to come up with this idea, and it would > be handy to learn from other people’s mistakes. > > FWIW, There is now a wide range of stackable toolboxes, Home Depot sells > some made by Rigid, that also work pretty well for this, but they do have > the disadvantage of looking like they might contain something valuable, if > someone were to see them in the back of my van. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
