Shipping Dashboards

Re: Shipping Dashboards

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

paper towels a safe choice once finish is hard enough

Re: Shipping Dashboards

johnv

White tissue paper also works well.

Re: Shipping Dashboards

paul in AZ

Poly is said to take-up to 30 days to fully cure and harden. I usually figure a couple of weeks before using anything varnished.

Once hard shipping should be no problem.

Re: Shipping Dashboards

walta

Avoid the finish having any contact paper with printing pressure or bubble pack.

In fact wax paper seems like the thing least likely to adhere to the finish.

Walta

Wax Paper and microbe towels

Mike L

wrap it in wax paper then with microfiber towels.

Re: Wax Paper and microbe towels

Jim Matthews

"Microbe towels" - thank you, autocorrect!

Re: Wax Paper and microbe towels

Mike L

Yup these computers are smarter than us. They know what we are thinking.

Thanks everyone

Yonak

I think I'll steer clear of the microbe towels.

dash pictures?

Re: dash pictures?

Yonak

3 cherry, 1 maple :

questions

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

You must have started with a pattern, but what and from where?

How were the cut-outs done? They look to be CNC quality.

Plywood? Home made?

I would see no harm is stacking these pieces with soft paper between, again paper towels are sufficiently soft for this task then wrapping with shrink wrap to keep them from moving.

Re: questions

Yonak

Bill, I was given a deteriorating dashboard which ends were crumbling and areas missing. These boards have not been fit to the cars so I don't know how well they will fit.

I take it as a compliment that you say they are CNC quality. They are all hand cut. The circles were cut with Forstner bits, the glove box and speedometer and odometer holes and air vents with a sabre saw and all the round-overs, cove cuts and rabbets with router bits.

The place for the ash tray was the hardest as the fillets are tiny. I had to put a rat tail file in the drill press to form the corners. All the perimeter edges are at a 15° bevel I hand cut with a spindle sander.

They are made from 1/2" plywood. They don't really stack because there some blocks on the back for mounting the glove box door.

He only needs three .. the three made from cherry. I made the extra maple one as a practice piece to practice my cuts before I committed them to the cherry boards. As I got toward the end and the maple board didn't have any glaring errors I decided to finish it and offer it as an option.

Thanks for your interest.

Re: questions

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

I take it as a compliment that you say they are CNC quality.

Indeed it was

Re: Wax Paper and microbe towels

Pete in Holland MI

Multiple pieces of nearly flat wood, with chosen padding, tape the bundle together so they act as a single unit, put it in a big plastic trash bag, then burry the unit in a box with multiple layers of bubble pack or packing peanuts. Overstuff the box with the packing so when you seal the top & shake it, you can't feel it move. Movement means opportunity for shifting or chafing. Anticipate it being dropped, tossed, set upside down. Expecting the delivery service to handle your package with tender gloves will leave you disappointed. They literally handle millions of packages a day !