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PostPosted: Sun Jun 04, 2023 8:32 pm 
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How is everyone storing/sealing their engines and gearboxes when they are separated. Last time I wrapped them in pallet wrap and had them on a trolley but it wasn't the best. It wasn't sealed particularly well and the plastic could easily get torn.

I am thinking of getting a large plastic container for each of them but they are too large for most containers and I don't want rubbish ones which will fall apart.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 04, 2023 10:00 pm 
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68+86auto wrote:
How is everyone storing/sealing their engines and gearboxes when they are separated. Last time I wrapped them in pallet wrap and had them on a trolley but it wasn't the best. It wasn't sealed particularly well and the plastic could easily get torn.

I am thinking of getting a large plastic container for each of them but they are too large for most containers and I don't want rubbish ones which will fall apart.


I have a gearbox in one of those big black plastic containers with a yellow lid. I stored an engine/gearbox for nearly thirty years wrapped in plastic, no head on it. I just smeared grease on the head surface and regularly oiled the Bores and turned it over .now in the car working. The tools I made as an apprentice are rust free smeared in the grease I put on in 1964.

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