Cool, Useful Product....

[hobbyfarm]

Do you need to store long, narrow items?

<font color="red">Tube Doors</font> look like they could be useful for certain storage. I've seen these on the engineer's and surveyor's trucks to store their tripods and rods etc.
Various sizes and materials.

Cool /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[hobbyfarm]

<font color="green">These guys</font> also have them and the tube brackets.

mo Cool!

 

[Junkman]

I liked them until I saw the price!! A roll of duct tape is a lot less. I use PVC all the time for shipping long automotive moldings. Stuff a rag in the end and duct tape it closed. Off to the Post Office to pay for a oversize package...

 

[hobbyfarm]

Howdy Junk,

Yeah, I know what you mean. Nevertheless, apparently some people buy them, I see them all over the place on trucks and vans up by the ladder racks.

 

[Junkman]

I see a lot of trucks that use the 6" PVC pipe and a 6" threaded clean out for the end cap. Hole drilled in the center and a cable or chain added to keep the cap from becoming lost when removed to access the interior. Hard to pay $48 for a item when you are in the plumbing business and you can buy the clean out for $6.00.. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Moon]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I see a lot of trucks that use the 6" PVC pipe and a 6" threaded clean out for the end cap. Hole drilled in the center and a cable or chain added to keep the cap from becoming lost when removed to access the interior. Hard to pay $48 for a item when you are in the plumbing business and you can buy the clean out for $6.00.. )</font>

Yep, that's exactly what we did way back when I installed water softners (25+ yrs ago). We made our own tubes with the threaded clean out on one end of the 6" pvc and a cap on the opposite end. Worked great. We didn't go so far as to add the chain so that we didn't loose the cap, but that would be a nice addition.

 

[Jagmandave]

I like the look of em, but they are a bit spendy............

 

[hobbyfarm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I like the look of em, but they are a bit spendy............ )</font>

Not when you look at the price of, say, an industrial quality tripod case!
Pvc is relatively cheap and the lid does mak it look better than a piece of plumbing. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[thcri]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I liked them until I saw the price!! A roll of duct tape is a lot less. )</font>

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I see a lot of trucks that use the 6" PVC pipe and a 6" threaded clean out for the end cap. Hole drilled in the center and a cable or chain added to keep the cap from becoming lost when removed to access the interior. Hard to pay $48 for a item when you are in the plumbing business and you can buy the clean out for $6.00..)</font>


Yep, all of our trucks use the clean out system.


murph