The only way to insure no damage in shipping sailplanes is to wrap the box with 1/8" Luan ply. UPS won't allow plywood on the outside, so you just hot glue it to the inside. Fedex doesn't care. It is $6.00 per 4x8 sheet, cheap insurance. That's the exoskeleton, the inside must render the parts immobile, (not peanuts), rather foam blocks, bubble wrap etc. Cyclic vibration is the biggest threat to goods in boxes. Bouncing in a truck induces these kind of movements which can destroy packaging and abrade wings which are pre-covered and wrapped in bubble wrap alone.
JD Endless Mountain Models http://www.scalesoaring.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: James V Bacus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 1:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Re: Happiness Is Happiness is... being LUCKY!!! 8-) Even though the box was torn up, the mummies wrapped up inside made it unscratched somehow. The hole in the box looks like the end of a knife handle or broom stick, and they had to hit it twice because the first hit was on a center section of the box where Don staples in a back bone second ply of cardboard. Second hit punctured the box, popped all the bubble wrap down to a wing tip, but didn't dent it. whew. Don packs a ballast box in one corner, nothing hurt there, and in the other end are a loose bubble area were all the servos are packed, no damage there. Don really packs his models to take max abuse during shipment, and I think this shipment used up almost all his tricks to get it here safely. And OH MAN, what paint jobs!!! 8-) As Don would say... "trick" I have matching custom paint jobs on my new ICON, and my new 2m. Pictures this weekend some time, these models are have wing tip colors that just jump off the wing! Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, AMA 592537 LSF 7560 Level IV ICQ: 6997780 AIM: InventorJim R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
