direct orders

[Terry Terrenoire]

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.

Terry T.


On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:10:03 -0500 "Gray E Fowler" <gfowler at raytheon.com>
writes:

Tom 

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.



Gray Fowler
Principal Chemical Engineer
Composites Engineering
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