Sierra11861

I am having trouble finding a shipping box to fit a basic 60 size aircraft 64" wingspan and fuse with the tail measuring roughly 14" high (fin/rudder) and 26" wide (stab). In addition, when mailing parcel post with the USPS once the length and girth of the box goes over 108" there is roughly a $50 add on fee. Someone mentioned Greyhound, but I have a feeling they will smash it because every package I have received via Greyhound was smashed.

So do the math. A 64" wing leaves 108-64 or 44" for girth which divided by the 4 sides is 11" square. That is not near tall or wide enough to fit the 26" stab!.... The only way I can think of doing it is two boxes??? HELP!!!!!!!!! I looked at boxes at my local U-store-it and they had nothing near this size, they were mostly square shaped, not cigar shaped.

JWN

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Try your local big box home improvement store or appliance store. See if they have a refrigerator box you can have. It will be way too big, but you can cut it down to fit the model.

scale only 4 me

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Get over sized boxes at Pier One and bike shops also,, the hard part with Home depot is getting before they compact it, some times you'll get luck there though.
I do this all the time, you can cut and bend and build your ow, I just did that with a model, the box was 40x32x10, you'd never find a box that size
Another way is to build a 1x2 wood frame and hot glue the cardboard to that frame, tape the corners,
I've sent and received those through Greyhound without problems before

Joe Nagy

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Hi Sierra;

Greetings from the ever hot 'Valley of the Sun'.

Re your large box problem; I do aggree with the comments/suggestions above, and can add possibly 2 more solutions. I ship/receive a lot of kits, some quite large, and there is nothing worse than receiving one damaged. Everyone feels bad, and just try and collect from the shippers, with their 800# loading gorillas'.....oooh boy! For a really big box I have found a convenient source, namely PENSKE TRUCK RENTAL outlets, they have the roughly 22x24x48" HD Wardrobe Moving boxes. They are extremely strong, + they also have a 2' tall or 30" tall smaller box....like tape the 2 boxes together.....whatever, and they are reasonably priced. Also, here in the Phoenix area, I have found that at some big paper/cardboard supply houses, [check your yellow pages], you can purchase cardboard sheets in 4x8' sizes, I have a good supply on hand, and simply wrap up a kit that I am going to ship, similar to wrapping with brown paper, a little 'tuffer' to handle mind you, trim to size with a sharp linoleum knife, glue it up with glue from the same supplier, + I also wrap up the boxes with the 2" wide clear plastic shipping tape re a handy dispenser, and naturally make my own little box end caps, and tape these in place. I find a good/inexpensive packing isolator is loosely crumpled/wadded up newpapers, presto your done, and you will have made a happy new Friend of whoever is receiving 'da kit/plane....UNDAMAGED....Tah DaH!

I hope this has been of help, [like: I've been dere/done dat!!], and am happy to share how. Will close, and let us all have a very happy and safe Labour Day Weekend, best regards from Glendale, Arizona,

Joe Nagy.

Sierra11861

Thanks everyone for the useful info

eddieC

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Joe beat me to it. Penske and U-Haul for boxes, and ship via Greyhound or other bus service. Buy a big 'Fragile" stamp at Kinkos or a printer, plaster it all over.
Ed