Systainer letterbox challenge

[Kev]

No money or prize in this .. if that's you're hope - skip this thread [big grin]

I've never seen a Systainer letterbox, so here's an opportunity for bragging rights to be the first to post a picture of their Systainer letterbox.

My wife would kill me if I even attempted to desecrate our sandstone letterbox, so I have to live vicariously through others!! [sad]

 

[Redcarjoiner]

Hello there
I am not sure what that is but can only think it's a ply box painted grey with a letter box cut into the front of it ?

 

[waho6o9]

I think Kev means a mail box

 

[Mort]

My mailbox is right on the highway, and the first one in a row, so it gets destroyed by the snow plow every year. I keep banging it back into place, but the darn plow keeps ruining it.

I guess if I made 5 of them, I could stack them on edge so the mail lady would have an easier time. Or not.

 

[Redcarjoiner]

Hello guys
Do you mean a US mail box project made with festool kit.
I was thinking it was a grey plastic tool container with a slot in the front LOL.

 

[Kev]

Hello guys
Do you mean a US mail box project made with festool kit.
I was thinking it was a grey plastic tool container with a slot in the front LOL.

That's it .. a real life Systainer letter box in the wild [wink]

 

[Redcarjoiner]

Hello guys
Do you mean a US mail box project made with festool kit.
I was thinking it was a grey plastic tool container with a slot in the front LOL.

That's it .. a real life Systainer letter box in the wild [wink]

LOL here in the UK a systainer costs more than a small house, bet you guys get them at a fraction of what we would pay ?

 

[Tinker]

My mailbox is right on the highway, and the first one in a row, so it gets destroyed by the snow plow every year. I keep banging it back into place, but the darn plow keeps ruining it.

I guess if I made 5 of them, I could stack them on edge so the mail lady would have an easier time. Or not.

[member=46908]Mort[/member]  A carpenter friend of mine told me his solution.
He cemented a truck axle verticle with a bearing on the upper end.  He welded a very strong box (mimicking a standard mail box) at the top.  He had an axle welded to the bearing with one end sticking out to the center of the mail box and the rest hanging straight out behind the box with a heavy weight welded to the back end of the horizontal axel.  The sno plows used to have a game where the winner had knocked the most mail boxes off their posts.  My friend told me that the plows only hit his box once.  there was explaing to do when that driver got back to the shop.  It seems there was a broken windshield. 

Not claiming the story is true, but worth a thought.  [wink]
Tinker

 

[Mort]

There's an idea. The box itself has never been knocked off, it just gets dented. I need to just put something heavy in front of it, to block the spray.

Of course, it's nice out now so I've got all summer to procrastinate.

 

[Redcarjoiner]

Kev I got a new sys 2 today but am going to fill it up with all the small bits and bobs from the mft
Just to say there is no way I will be cutting a hole in it for letter LOL.