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gyre
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Post by gyre » Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:20 am

One option -
Carry your stuff in good coolers.
Unpack and put your stuff in bags in reno and fill with ice.
Reverse to return.

Warning.
Airlines sometimes don't consider coolers luggage and don't care if destroyed.
May be worth choosing some with tough hinges and fasteners, or pack in boxes, strap down.

Be sure to get insulated lids.

I use this approach in my car too, but no barely prehensile baggage handlers.

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Elorrum
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Post by Elorrum » Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:53 am

styrofoam coolers are a "things not to bring" in the new survival guide. "They don't hold up and break into a million bits." I think that if you carefully sealed the whole cooler, lid and box wrapped separately, in garbage bags, perhaps it would be contained. Little styrofoam bits are nightmare moop.

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Post by SilverOrange » Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:16 am

gyre wrote:There is a wash that does full detail for $30 to $70.
You want to enlighten me here (or send me a p.m.) Renting a car this year and I'd like to get it detailed before I return it.

Thanks.

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gyre
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Post by gyre » Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:22 am

The really cheap ones aren't styrofoam, but polystyrene.

Some styrofoam is construction grade.
I have some heavy styrofoam coolers made for medical shipping.
Twenty years old now and still haven't failed.
Two inches + thick though.

Anything will moop if you shred it.

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Post by gyre » Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:28 am

SilverOrange wrote:
gyre wrote:There is a wash that does full detail for $30 to $70.
You want to enlighten me here (or send me a p.m.) Renting a car this year and I'd like to get it detailed before I return it.

Thanks.
It may have been alamo.
I can't be sure unless I find my receipt.
They are well known in reno and market to burners.

I vacuumed before I went and got the $10 special.
Decent job, even for that.

The Melting Pot may have been where I heard of them.
Everyone knew who they were.

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