In my misspent youth I worked in a carpet store.
The roll tubes are designed to allow lifting a heavy roll of carpet,
sometimes 140 square yards or more without punching through the inside
of the tube with the pole attachment on the fork lift.
They were a good 3/8" wall glued up work of art. I haven't seen one lately.
The problem is you won't be able to squeeze an XM-240 in one of them no
matter how you break it down.
The bigger ones were 4" ID, most were less. Then you've got UPS/FedEx 8'
limitation. The tubes were either 12' or 15' length. We used to cut them
with an old cross cut hand saw.
On 6/5/2016 12:27 PM, Gary Schafer wrote:
Carpet stores usually can provide the large tubes that carpet comes wrapped
on. As long as the shipping company doesn't try to fold them in half to make
them fit on the truck. :>)
73
Gary K4FMX
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
john@kk9a.com
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 12:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Shipping XM-240
Certainly there must be some place to buy boxes. U-Haul, Home Depot,
etc.
You can tape multiple boxes together to make them longer. Another
option is
go to a concrete supply house and buy a Sonotube.
John KK9A
To: Towertalk Reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: [TowerTalk] Shipping XM-240
From: Roger D Johnson <n1rj@roadrunner.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 08:38:42 -0400
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I'm faced with the problem of shipping an XM-240. I don't have the
original boxes. I live out in the boondocks and containers are not
readily available. Suggestions welcome.
73, Roger
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