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Re: OT Freight Shipping

To: Michael Poorboy <bitterrootprop@nidlink.com>
Subject: Re: OT Freight Shipping
From: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 21:55:34 -0700
Mike,
I still have your "Action Packer".  Let me know if you need it.  Right now it 
serves as
a mini table that I put my tools on when I am woking on my roadster.
Guy

Michael Poorboy wrote:

> Guy and List,
> I just got a reply from Bob Haug asking me where I got that big of
> Tupperware container :-)
>
> It was actually a Rubbermaid Action Packer. the regular rubbermaid
> tubs you can buy at the store work great.I got this idea from Mark Dent
> who said he sent a transmission that way.
>
> UPS will take packages up to 150 pounds. The R16 block in the tub weighed
> in at 116 pounds. I had to lift it up to the scales :-) where was Terry Cost 
>when
> I needed him . A U20 or an R16 should way close to the 150 pounds even with
> the crank. It cost about $70 for the block and another $70 for the remainder 
>of the
>
> parts.
>
> Mike
>
> Pamela Pepoy wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Mike Poorboy shipped my stroker block from Idaho to Arizona in a big 
>tupperware
> > plastic tub.
> > He taped it shut and sent is via UPS for about $100.00 or so.
> > Guy
> > Tempe, AZ
> >
> > JRDMF@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Last time I had an engine shipped it was from Indiana to California, and 
>the
> > > best price I found was with Yellow Freight. (About $300.00) They will not
> > > crate it, and they will expect you to have a forklift, or some very large
> > > friends to get it off of the truck.
> > >
> > > Good Luck
> > >
> > > Jon

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