Boxing Clever

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Boxing Clever

Post by MDLR » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:35 pm

As I'm acquiring bogie coaches for the MDLR, I needed a stock box which is longer than the norm. I happened upon this at B&Q.........

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................ which has this in it............

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........ and which costs £19.99 (or £17.99 if you get Silver Surfer Discount!)
The beauty of this is that you can make it JUST the right length for a coach.....

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............ which then sits sngly in the bottom half of the box,
protected on either side by pieces of the foam mat you sleep on when you go camping, and with strips of wood above........

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............... for the top tray, where two more coaches can sit.

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Making the tray was the hardest bit of joinery, using various bits of ply and stripwood I had lying around in stock.

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A good rub down and treatment with Light Oak stain on the outside finishes the job off!

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ACLR

Post by ACLR » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:46 pm

great job well done :)

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Post by andysleigh » Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:38 am

That looks like a handy box, now all i need is 4 bogie coaches!
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SillyBilly

Post by SillyBilly » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:09 pm

Smart, a very good idea that.

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:40 pm

Great idea, I can see that being useful for locos as well with some mods. For carriages I use a rescued fruit box from the garden centre, holds 3 bogie coaches + an accoms 2.4Ghz radio transmitter (very useful as this dosn't fit in my steamup box)

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