[R-390] R390A Shipping boxes

[Heinz Breuer]

Hank KN6DI a former pilot (747 et al) had a crating and shipping business in Northridge, a L.A. suburb. In the early 2000 years he probably made the boxes himself.
In 2006 in his mid 70s after he was insured in a couple incidents and his sister moved him to McKinney, TX where she lived. Hank was still in the hospital when his relatives packed his stuff. Most of his remanufactured R-390 items (top and bottom covers, Utah plate etc.) were either lost in the move or his relatives scrapped it because they didn't know what the sheet metal stuff was.

In McKinney Hank felt to internet scam. He sent all his money to Nigeria for gold and a girl but didn't get either. It's a very sad story. 

In 2010 Hank broke both hips and after a long recovery felt again and broke both hips again. He spent his last years in a nursery home bound to a wheelchair.
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> Am 25.02.2019 um 23:56 schrieb Cecil Acuff <chacuff at cableone.net>:
> 
> I used Dans boxes as well and after not having two returned after a couple radio sales I contacted him about buying two more. He took my money and about two weeks later I got two crappy Dell computer boxes in the mail. We had words and parted ways. Don’t have a clue where he was getting them but I think it was some outfit out in California.
> 
> A good shipping box with die cut foam form fitted inserts would be a great thing to have...
> 
> I’m getting to old to hand cut packing material and lug these things to the UPS counter so I’m probably parting mine out here before long.  Pretty much over big heavy radios.
> 
> Cecil
> K5DL
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> Sent using recycled electrons.
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>> On Feb 25, 2019, at 3:51 PM, Steve Toth via R-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Does anybody know where Dan Arney was getting the double walled cardboard boxes for shipping R390A's?  I believe it was a charity group in Texas somewhere but I'm not sure and i do not have any contact info.
>> 
>> We are packing for a move from Seattle to Montana and I have three R390A's without exterior boxes to go around any interior box I use for double boxing.
>> Those boxes from Dan are great - I have shipped R390A's back and forth across the country to Chuck Ripple with no damage.
>> 
>> If I can't find the boxes Dan used, what suggestions do you guys have for a good double walled exterior cardboard shipping box?
>> Thanks! - Steve W7SJT
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