[Milsurplus] [armyradios] Waaay OT: Coconut from the Mariannas in WW II

[Peter Gottlieb]

Not surprising, aluminum is not resilient like the plastic.


On 4/3/2013 12:33 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> Many moons ago, I went to China on a business trip to demo a prototype
> product. I had a bunch of very pretty, dark blue, USAF surplus shipping
> cases and one brand new Halliburton aluminum camera case.
>
> On my eventual return home, the Halliburton case was very beaten up, but
> the USAF cases were unmolested.
>
> -John
>
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>
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>> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:30:43AM -0400, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
>>> I won a LASER cloud height measurement instrument from govliquidation a
>>> few
>>> years back.  It is a field unit which is built into a metal case with
>>> twist-pull
>>> latches on four sides.  It took me a lot of convincing to the shipping
>>> company
>>> to just slap a label on it but they finally did and of course it arrived
>>> just fine.
>> Field units are generally tolerant of being shipped "bare", though there
>> are exceptions.
>>
>> I just have to include this, which is one of my favorite exchanges:
>>
>> : >If being dropped out of an aircraft into ... a minefield is "moderately
>> : >rough handling", what would constitute "rough handling"?
>> : Being shipped UPS.
>> : -- David Richerby and Dave Brown
>>
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>> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
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