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Obviously I'm not a carpenter, but I wanted a design that I could complete in a short time and that would not use any more material than neccessary (weight savings) to protect the seat and get it to its destination unscathed.
Here are some pix:
Seat completely wrapped in industrial strength plastic wrap.
There is a 2x4 running across the width of the seat, attached to the bottom of the crate, about 2/3rds of the way back from the front edge. The rear seat anchors, which are at an angle ("shorter" that the front) when the seat back is straight up vertical caused a gap between the floor of the crate and the rear seat mounts. The 2x4 takes up that gap. All 4 seat mounts are encased in styrofoam blocks.
I filled the mostly small voids along the bottom of the seat to crate area with bubble wrap.
About to add rope handles and close the crate with screws along the reinforced sides and top (highlighted in pink)
Here are some pix:
Seat completely wrapped in industrial strength plastic wrap.
There is a 2x4 running across the width of the seat, attached to the bottom of the crate, about 2/3rds of the way back from the front edge. The rear seat anchors, which are at an angle ("shorter" that the front) when the seat back is straight up vertical caused a gap between the floor of the crate and the rear seat mounts. The 2x4 takes up that gap. All 4 seat mounts are encased in styrofoam blocks.
I filled the mostly small voids along the bottom of the seat to crate area with bubble wrap.
About to add rope handles and close the crate with screws along the reinforced sides and top (highlighted in pink)
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