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CHAZ I've purchased several gun cases by searching E-Bay, you might want to do that and try a restoration project. Since it's an American gun you might want to look at leg-of-mutton leather cases too. Steve
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I hadn't considered buying a beat up case and restoring it, that is a great idea. Plus I would have the opportunity to learn how they are made to see if I could do it myself.
Actually I might come out ahead just to have all the hardware that I need. So now the search for a beat up clapped out dirt cheap motor case begins.
I work in a weaving mill and we are running the most beautiful quail jacquard pattern right now, it would make a great case lining.
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Kensal Rise, if you carry a motor case with no straps fine but WHO does that ?? I think they are very practical but I do have straps on mine !, best, Mike
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The weak link is the handle, IMO. No redundancy there. A rivet fails and the whole thing hits the pavement, shattering a delicately glued together wood box with 10 lbs of $20 bills worth of gun in it. It happened to me. It's all about the Goochi-ness with these wood framed cases. Little about protection. This discussion always heads to extreme polarization of Huey case followers and industrial box followers. Count me in the industrial box group. 
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Hey Chuck, Ainley Kennels, eh? Good stuff. They did the locking box for my truck.
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You guys must be using different motor cases to me !! I use mine flying in Europe, best
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Mike, Yes, different. Mine is that big aluminum motor case in the back of my truck. 
Last edited by Chuck H; 05/10/11 04:10 PM.
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FWIW on the handle attachment issue, I rebuilt my briefcase handle a while back and also built a travel case for my sxs, the latter being based on experience derived from the former.
The briefcase handle was attached with those pot metal mounts that, after a year or so of in and out of the car and office, just gave way. So, here's what I did.
I went to the Home Depot and bought a couple feet of 1/8 inch brass rod, a tap and die set sized to the rod, and brass nuts and washers sized to the threads from the die and rod. I figured out how big a squared-off U of brass I would need to replace the existing pot metal, then cut sections of the rod to make a pair of them, threaded the rods ends and formed the unthreaded section of the rod into the two right anglesto make the hanger. I slid the rod through the handle proper, threaded a nut and washer onto each of the threaded ends all the way to the end of the threads nearest the handle, then slid the thing into the existing holes in the briefcase. On the inside ends, I checked for length, threaded on another washer and nut, tightened it down, hacksawed off the excess, peened the ends over and reset the lining. All accomplished, from design to completion, in an evening or two in front of the TV.
That was 10 years ago. No problems since. It'll probably outlast the next ice age.
Because of the peculiarities in the dimensions of the handle, etc., there was a bit of gymnastics involved in tapping the threads onto the rod and then bending. But, I had excess material to practice on - the final job required maybe 8 inches of rod.
I did something similar but bigger for the travel case.
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I was thinking the same thing! I wasn't happy with the initial results and have put the project on hold. I can give you some advice. Here is where I stopped. I wasn't happy with the quality of the covering job, and the aluminum I was using for the corner protectors (and as a device to hide the seams) was expensive and tedious to drill and countersink. I am going to shelve it for a while. I used some of my learnings to build another kind of box which came out better. It's a box to hold Tommy gun magazines. What might help you in your attempt: use contact cement as the glue for the cover - I used some 3M 777 spray adhesive which is total crap. Also, cutting out the material in a kind of cross pattern with enough to wrap the corner edges and fold over into the box is key - you can see some of this technique in the magazine case photo. It comes out pretty clean. Also, stretching the vinyl a bit and using a j roller to really press the glued surfaces together helps. There is a great site with lots of latches, etc., http://www.brettunsvillage.com/I'd say practice covering a smaller box first and learn the technique then move to the motor case...or just buy one. Once you buy wood, hinges, clasps, leather straps, felt, vinyl, a handle, corner protectors and metal feet, plus a tool or bit you'll likely need here and there, you will be into the project about $150.
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