Pinewood Derby Car Carrying Case by Revell

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Re: Pinewood Derby Car Carrying Case by Revell

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Any idea where one can get some packing foam if I dont have any old appliance boxes laying around. I just had the kids paint some old shoe boxes and tried to cut up some styrofoam. Huge mess and I am not happy with how it works.
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Noskills wrote:Any idea where one can get some packing foam if I dont have any old appliance boxes laying around. I just had the kids paint some old shoe boxes and tried to cut up some styrofoam. Huge mess and I am not happy with how it works.
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Seth, you might try the shipping and reciveing dept at your local hospitals.
The one I work at is always thowing packing foams and boxes out.

or you could try:
http://www.uline.com/BL_873/Pick-And-Pack-Foam" target="_blank
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A sharp machete does a great job of slicing through the pink foam sheets. I made the front of our soapbox derby car with the stuff and of all the tools I experimented with, the machete did it the best.
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Thanks Mark,

Also found http://www.foambymail.com/" target="_blank whick allows for small orders. I got the foam squares to customize the shape of the bottom of the car and a piece of egg crate for the top. It was about $15 plus shipping. Having the kids spray paint shoe boxes was a nice practice run for the cars too!

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All,
Here is some follow up on the carrying case. We painted a nice shoe box and got some much needed practice. Also did a trial run of printing our clear decals. Ordered two types of foam from foambymail, the one with the little squares to custom cut and the egg crate. Was about $20 with shipping.
Here is box which is almost done. Used our model car to custom cut the foam (did not have a machete but used a carving knife)
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Dig the zombie stickers 8)
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Note the egg crate lid.
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Wheel holes cut for an extended wheelbase car.
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All closed up and ready to go. This came out so well I now want one myself. I got enough foam for 2 good ones and I can use the left over to make one for my car. This was both a cool project and very practical as I hear we do weigh in the day before the race and I think they just put all the cars in a plastic tub. Not these cars, they travel in style :bigups:
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Seth, You all did a good job with this project.
And I dig the zombie stickers.

Something I've offten wounderd about the car carrying boxes like this is the area for the wheels.

I noted: your nesting them down in the foam to keep them from rattleing around.
This might be a good thing to keep the graphite lube in the wheel bores while in transport. ;)
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Based on an earlier post regarding axles possibly being moved, if you are gluing the axles in place would there really be a risk to the car alignment if transported carefully using the foam?
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Best Improvised Carry Case - 2 liter coke bottle.
A Dad cut the bottle in half, stuffed in some soft rags, place finished car in, joined the halves back together.
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