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

[J. Forster]

Oh, no. The USAF cases were aluminum too...  just heavier guage. Glad I
was not paying the air freight bill. LoL

-John

==============


> 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
>>
>> ================
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
>>> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
>>> Tired old sysadmin
>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>> Milsurplus mailing list
>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus
>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>>> Post: mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>>>
>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> Milsurplus mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>>
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>
>>
>> -----
>> No virus found in this message.
>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>> Version: 10.0.1430 / Virus Database: 2641/5722 - Release Date: 04/03/13
>>
>>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Milsurplus mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
>