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New phone books come out, which means folks have old ones.
Nothing against recycling, just a old old trick come to mind with phone books.
Any old books, or even "books" of recycled paper works. Adapt as need.
Plyboard, phone books , bricks, pea gravel , etc will make a portable wall.
We set these walls on wheels, akin to the old roll around chalk boards.
Civil unrests and needing a wall to assist in insuring a stray bullet did not enter a structure, and hit someone inside, most times placed to protect a baby in a crib.
Indoor shooting with wax bullets, and later plastic training bullets.
Business setting and zones of fire, especially handy after hours, and working by one's self or with fewer employees.
Portable cover, zone of fire type thing.
Set the phone book down at the corner to mark width and height.
We just added a "shelf" for these phone books to set on.
Think columns and rows of phone books , filling up a ply board.
Add another ply board to sandwich and finish out all 4 sides with 2x6s.
Phone book "sandwich" if you will, on wheels.
One can do a thicker sandwich with two layers of books, beef this up with some bricks here and there to fill gaps, or fill empty cereal boxes with pea gravel ( wrap the box real good in a pc of tarp and tape real good ).
Now finish these out- however one wants. Paint it white and use for a projection screen, add a small chalkboard to the other side, or now-a-days a eraser board.
These are heavy, hence the wheels and one need to make so these do not tump over ( hard to get back up *grunt*).
Put a peg board on one side for hanging whatever, maybe tools in a shop, garage, corner of warehouse setting...
Do these in settings and not tell anyone what they are, except those that need to know.
Indoor shooting ranges can use these for various things.
Down on the property, in a barn, shed, storage place, again a backstop if need for shooting BB guns and wax, plastic bullets.
Those wooden bases with nice wheels plants are on in building setting are not that expensive. Some are square and like a "crate" and easy to build braces to support and prevent tumping over.
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One is used for instance as the front of the business , glass, is on the sidewalk, the entrance is off to the right in a alcove.
So if the folks are working after hours, or on a Sunday and anyone that looks in and thinks they are open - or other ideas - has to tap on front widow to be seen.
Two of these moving walls are positioned to protect employees if someone decides to shoot through the glass window or door.
Other practiced plans on how to deal with such things, still those "walls" look like pretty mirrors but they serve another purpose.
Besides allowing one to see places - security mirror, they are cover.
These work out pretty well, not perfect, still a old old tip going way way back.
Maybe a use for someone around here...
Steve
Nothing against recycling, just a old old trick come to mind with phone books.
Any old books, or even "books" of recycled paper works. Adapt as need.
Plyboard, phone books , bricks, pea gravel , etc will make a portable wall.
We set these walls on wheels, akin to the old roll around chalk boards.
Civil unrests and needing a wall to assist in insuring a stray bullet did not enter a structure, and hit someone inside, most times placed to protect a baby in a crib.
Indoor shooting with wax bullets, and later plastic training bullets.
Business setting and zones of fire, especially handy after hours, and working by one's self or with fewer employees.
Portable cover, zone of fire type thing.
Set the phone book down at the corner to mark width and height.
We just added a "shelf" for these phone books to set on.
Think columns and rows of phone books , filling up a ply board.
Add another ply board to sandwich and finish out all 4 sides with 2x6s.
Phone book "sandwich" if you will, on wheels.
One can do a thicker sandwich with two layers of books, beef this up with some bricks here and there to fill gaps, or fill empty cereal boxes with pea gravel ( wrap the box real good in a pc of tarp and tape real good ).
Now finish these out- however one wants. Paint it white and use for a projection screen, add a small chalkboard to the other side, or now-a-days a eraser board.
These are heavy, hence the wheels and one need to make so these do not tump over ( hard to get back up *grunt*).
Put a peg board on one side for hanging whatever, maybe tools in a shop, garage, corner of warehouse setting...
Do these in settings and not tell anyone what they are, except those that need to know.
Indoor shooting ranges can use these for various things.
Down on the property, in a barn, shed, storage place, again a backstop if need for shooting BB guns and wax, plastic bullets.
Those wooden bases with nice wheels plants are on in building setting are not that expensive. Some are square and like a "crate" and easy to build braces to support and prevent tumping over.
--
One is used for instance as the front of the business , glass, is on the sidewalk, the entrance is off to the right in a alcove.
So if the folks are working after hours, or on a Sunday and anyone that looks in and thinks they are open - or other ideas - has to tap on front widow to be seen.
Two of these moving walls are positioned to protect employees if someone decides to shoot through the glass window or door.
Other practiced plans on how to deal with such things, still those "walls" look like pretty mirrors but they serve another purpose.
Besides allowing one to see places - security mirror, they are cover.
These work out pretty well, not perfect, still a old old tip going way way back.
Maybe a use for someone around here...
Steve
