Crate for shipping engine & gear box help?

Ta.

Nice work Ken and congrats Steve! Look out corner cripples!

Nice job on the crate but not enough points secured on the engine in my opinion

Having shipped close to 100 engines to date, I have definitely had a couple of bad experiences. My current steel crates that I use secures the engine in the front 2 engine mounts, 2 of the rear mounts and also at the head steady mounting holes.

Years back I shipped an engine secured only with the 2 front and 3 rears. This engine was delivered to my customer with both front bolt holes fractured and cracked.

Since triangulating the securing points I have never had any issues

I think one of the problems is that we assume that the crate/box will be handled the way we intended when we built it. There is however no telling if the box will be shipped on one of its sides or even upside down. I had a customer use my crate to ship an engine to me and when I opened it, there was oil all over the inside of the crate. Even on the top lid which meant that it had been upside down at some point...even though it has steel handles welded on the top.

Also, be aware of the UPS guidelines for packaging. According to their fine print, any box shipped with UPS should be able to handle a drop from waist high !! That's right....a free fall of about 3+ feet. If it cant handle that, don't bother insuring it as they wont cover it anyway.

I never use UPS for my engines any longer. I have had much better luck with Fed Ex as they have been far more careful when handling the large, bulky shipments. That is of course just my experience and others may have a difference of opinion.

Strapping the crate on a pallet and shipping by regular freight is a lot less risky but the costs are often so much higher that it may not be an option

Matt / Colorado Norton Works

http://www.coloradonortonworks.com

Matt you really are taking the piss now...

As if your bikes and parts and enough...

Even your shipping crate is awesome !!

Your crate is better than my bike.

Matt's crate and a portable lift made getting the engine back into the bike pretty easy.

Err-a, Ken's Left Coast Hit-Miss Racing Cabinetry shop boxed for Peel's piece of coal engine not a museum quality gem stone, so waist high drops on just a couple of her 7/16" interference fit aircraft grade bolts though Maney race cases might hurt what it landed on first. Still no doubt about it CNW pallet mount powder coated metal triangulated crate tops the charts as awesome to see. Wonder how much the various packages weight out in political correct renewable carbon costs? For the lazy expedient shippers like needing...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... +packaging

Ta.

Thanks for the info, Matt. That's without a doubt the Cadillac of Commando engine shipping systems. I may have to go back and reinforce my crate a bit more before sending it off. I'll check out the FedEx rates too.

Ken