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Shipping crate plywood projects
- Thread starter Gash
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There is never enough horizontal surface area to put stuff, expecially final assembly in the hangar. I use some HF saw horses with plywood on top for table. If needed, more than one layer of plywood.
Carl
Carl
Made a puppet theater for my kids way back in the day. They played with that thing for several years.
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I used them for shop drawer fronts, so now I have vans, my serial number, name etc across the front of my shop drawers
My last kit (-14 fuse.) came in a cardboard box, which made me kind of sad. I'm constantly slicing a piece of that plywood from the first two kits off to make something. My fuse has plywood seats in it at the moment for example. I built my wing stand out of the wooden sides and plywood of the wing crate.
I was a little surprised to see van's doing wooden crates for the 15s, but that probably makes sense with the pre-built fuel tanks and heavy spars. I'm sure enough foam to protect those parts in a cardboard box would cost more than the plywood.
I was a little surprised to see van's doing wooden crates for the 15s, but that probably makes sense with the pre-built fuel tanks and heavy spars. I'm sure enough foam to protect those parts in a cardboard box would cost more than the plywood.
dnimigon
Well Known Member
Cutting fine 1/4 ply or even lighter ply is fine if you use the correct blade. I was a contractor for years doing Reno’s and built all kinds of things. There’s a proper procedure for cutting ply. Table saw is best though with fine tooth blade, good side up. . Skil saw is good also, good side down as blade is cutting up. but use a straight edge for guide and cut slow. Again fine tooth blade made for ply. A bit of rubbing with sandpaper cleans edge. Another trick is score ply fist with xacto blade. Then cut on the edge of the line. blade score will stop ply from tearing up or down. Hope this helps any of you.
I don't think cutting the plywood was the problem...
Ouch. You wanted it shorter right?
My crates were made from 7/16” plywood…
As a follow-up the dolly and crate were reunited to form a useful platform that continues to function today.
I made my wing storage stands out of the wing crate. I went very simple (lazy?) and just left the crate as-is so I could use it for storage of parts under the wings. I used plywood from the top of the crate to extend the ends vertically and create the cradle for the wings (pool noodles for padding). I have limited shop space, so I also added wheels to move it all around. Later I added blocking at the spar support end to cradle the spar so it wouldn't slip off.
Now put that set of wheels on the other end and you have a long dolly.
Brilliant!!
