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Re: OT: gate-checking




One thing I can recommend that might seem a bit silly at first is the
following:

When I went from North Carolina to Seattle to play a show at a friend's
anniversary party, I took a lot of equipment, and had nowhere near the kind
of money one needs for flight cases. I already had a pretty sturdy case 
from
an old Korg I bought years back, and it already had foam in it, so I used
this one to store my more delicate instruments. For the more hardy stuff,
like my Mackie CFX-12 (they accurately call it throw proof, btw), I went to
a thrift store and bought a huge hard plastic locking case for $5. I then
went to Big Lots and bought a crappy chair made of foam. I cut the chair up
into foam strips and packed the Mackie in firmly, then filled the blank
space with cables and other relatively unbreakable items. For my effects
units, these were wrapped in my clothes packed in my regular suitcase, 
which
also had some foam in it. The final step was spray painting the mixer case
in horrible colors so no one would ever want to steal it. The only damage
was a bit of the metal edge that bent on the crappy case, but hey it was
only 5 bucks. With some of the money I saved on buying a case I bought 
hasps
and locks, and added these to both cases so I could feel safer about 
letting
strangers handle them.

A bit of extra work certainly, and maybe kind of a backwoods way to do it,
but it worked!

So in short: Buying and adapting a lot of disposable crap can end up 
getting
the job done for a lot less money.

Hopefully that helps somebody out.

Jon
www.mp3.com/skincage