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Old 05-07-2007 | 12:14 PM
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Default RE: Field Boxes


ORIGINAL: Dr1Driver

Your TX is expensive and can be easily damaged. Carry it in a separate TX box. A pistol case from your local gun shop works great, as do the metal "small/electronic tool" boxes from Home Depot and Lowe's.

Dr.1
This is an excellent point!! The last thing I want is my JR radio bouncing around amongst my tools in my big Wally-World Tote!!

I don't have a Lowes near my town so I found some very nice hard-shell electronics boxes at Harbor Freight. They are a chain store of generic & discount tools, but they do have some quality stuff too. As for the radio boxes I found them to have a nice variety to choose from, from smaller boxes that might fit a single Tx to a number of bigger boxes that fit both my radios in just perfectly. They come with already corrigated sponge rubber squares making it very easy to pluck out the squares to achieve a perfect custom fit for whatever model radio you have. If memory serves me I believe I paid about $20 for my double sized box which carries my two best radios perfectly. With the all the sponge rubber intact around my radios they fit very snug so that there is asolutely no travel of the radios while inside the box.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=39196


This looks very similar to the one I bought, I just didn't use the divider panels, & used the pull-apart foam pieces to create a custom fit.
I actually found a much wider selection to choose from at the actual store than here on their website.