18'' x 12-3/4'' x 6'' ALUMINUM CASE

[Barbara Richmond]

Yes, well, overstuffing any case will make it...explode.  I haven't been very kind to my brief case and I'm sorry about it now.  I noticed that my shoe repair shop offers luggage repair--so maybe there's hope for it after all. This afternoon I found some aluminum cases on the net that I would hope were better quality--at least the price suggested it.  I think I paid $60-70 each twenty years ago for my two oldest ones.  

I bought an aluminum brief case at a truck stop last summer, but I don't like the innards so much. If I can get my old case fixed, I'll find some ingenious use for the new one.  ;-) 

Barbara Richmond
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Ross 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:41 PM
  Subject: Re: 18'' x 12-3/4'' x 6'' ALUMINUM CASE


  I like you, use the aluminum cases for specialized purposes.
  I found they didn't stand up to every day use, rivets pulled out of hinges etc.
  Mind you, to be fair, I kept on putting more and more stuff in it.
  I now use one for all the keybed refelting stuff. Another has my two scissor jacks and wooden blocks, used to support pinblocks, and lift grands to put on a truck, or work on the legs.
  Having dedicated cases in a van, simplifies things.
  John M. Ross
  Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
  jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Barbara Richmond 
    To: Pianotech 
    Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:36 PM
    Subject: Re: 18'' x 12-3/4'' x 6'' ALUMINUM CASE


    Hi,

    I use aluminum cases; I like the way they stack for hauling on my luggage cart (see October's Journal).  A couple of mine are over twenty years old and were originially marketed as cam-corder cases.  They cost more than the one listed below; I'm not sure how different in quality they are.  I haven't had to have the clasps or hinges replaced, but I did have to have a new handle put on the first one fairly early on.  At that time I was working at a music store that did band instrument repair, so I just took it to the instrument tech, who also repaired instrument cases.

    I also use a couple cheaper ones that I got within the last few years--one from Harbor Freight another from Home Depot, for some specialized stuff, so I don't open them as often.  I like the way my stuff fits in them, how they fit in my van, and they fit neatly in a relatively small space in my house when I've unloaded them from the van for the night.  


    Barbara Richmond, RPT
    near Peoria, Illinois
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Michael Magness 
      To: Pianotech List 
      Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:11 PM
      Subject: Re: 18'' x 12-3/4'' x 6'' ALUMINUM CASE




      On 10/31/07, Hechler Family <dahechler at charter.net> wrote: 
        Here is what I use for everything: tool case, player piano case,
        "stringing" case,

        http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=39196


       
      Hi,

      I used this same case for a few years, I found the hinges gave out on the top rather quickly especially if you put tools in the pockets rovided for same, followed by the d-ring attachments on the side where the shoulder strap attaches. 
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