[TowerTalk] Shipping XM-240

[Kevin Stover]

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
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>> john at kk9a.com
>> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 12:23 PM
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Shipping XM-240
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>> 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 at contesting.com>
>> Subject:	[TowerTalk] Shipping XM-240
>> From:	Roger D Johnson <n1rj at roadrunner.com>
>> Date:	Sun, 05 Jun 2016 08:38:42 -0400
>> List-post:	<towertalk at contesting.com">mailto:towertalk at contesting.com>
>> 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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