ok, it seems ballsy, but i wasn't stupid about it. the soon to be finished beautiful viper green '73 911T project car (w/ a freshly rebuilt '87 3.4L Ruff Carrera Motor of course) is always covered with bedsheets to keep the kids from scratching the new paint as they skip by (a thick comforter lies over the front where i was flying). still, with or without the worry of the porsche getting dented, the fact that if i left the 3' box i'd ruin my blades for sure was plenty of deterrant.

btw, you got pretty lucky on that unmatched set of blades. the one time i tried swapping a single wood blade i ended up having to add over 5gm of tape on one and 8gm on the other just to get them even close. i gave up on them because their pitches also appeared to be way off.