Hello all, Women and Men! I have enjoyed the discussion of chart cases and thought I should describe the PVC tubes I have built to store charts in my boat. They were dirt cheap, fast and easy to make. >From a local discount plumbing or landscaping store I purchased 2" and 3" thin wall (low psi strength) white tubing. Last week at my store an entire 10 foot section was only $3.39. Cut these into about 36" lengths. End caps were .79 and the other end is a female fitting that slides over the outside of the tube and has a threaded top portion. You then buy the screw top with a square hand grip to seal it all up watertight. This second fitting cost $2.00 total. PVC glue in a more than adequate supply cost $1.59. I have submerged them in a foot of water, banged them around, and not a drop of leakage. I calculate that one chart tube cost at most $4.00!!! You can't touch a professional map tube or fishing rod tube or I imagine any other manufactured tube for this little. Besides they are satisfying to build. Important: The 2" tube fits at most 5 full size charts. The 3" tube fits at most 20 charts. Each of my tubes is 36" long and fit easily into my relatively small Looksha IV rear compartment. This is certainly not a new or original idea but I was impressed with the ease and cost of these tubes. Several messages seemed to ask about possibilities for making tubes and I thought to offer my happy discovery. Brian W. Corvallis, Oregon _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free _at_yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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