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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Looking for help/advice as I am looking to build a new booth for the upcoming shows this winter.
I will not be doing the building, as I am have the industrial arts teacher at the school I teach at, and his students making it for me.
The booth is acutally for Tony Grant, just trying to help him out, and since I have the help available, I told him I would try and get one made.
Things we are looking for is something that is lightweight, easy to put together once at the shows, and fairly inexpensive.
Tri-fold set up, probably will set on a long table. Want the top to be at least 7 feet. Must be able to hold pictures and a mount or two.
What do you think would be the best way to make one?
Thanks for helping.
Mike Hulbert
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Location: oswego, il | Mike, it's not how you build the booth but the women you put in them to attract us musky lugs. Maybe worrall can loan you some patriot girls. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Aluminum angle and carpeted Luan is pretty light, and can be set up as a tri-fold easily. Take a look online at the many show boths available at a reasonable cost, too. |
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Location: Chicago | If they can weld aluminum get 1" square aluminum and make it into frame say 2'wide x 4'tall. you could then connect them together by drilling holes through the sides, and use wing nuts and bolts as fasteners. For you covering get gatorboard 1/4" or 3/8" whatever you think would be better, pick out a very low nap fabric use spary adhesive on the gatorboard to fasten the fabric. Get many rolls of velcro (white or clear) put the fuzzy side on the frame and the hard side on your panel. You can make them any size as longas your panel matches your frame. This may sound funny but it looks fantastic and is very easy to construct. |
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Location: Holly, MI | Plasti-core (plastic couragated like cardboard) is tough and very light. Use pressure sensitive decals to do your lettering. It takes a screw well but use a small washer so it wont pull thru. |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Thanks for the ideas, but like I said I am having the shop class teacher and students help me, so wood is probably going to be the material of choice.
Any ideas on a wooden display booth? Same concept, probably a tri-fold, 8-10 feet long, and probably 7.5 feet tall, after putting on top of a table.
Hulbert
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Location: Lafayette, IN | PVC pipe and fittings with drapery material slid over it. We use it for creating portable stages for puppets (children's church). Leave certain joints "un-glued" so the tri-fold points can rotate to close up the display. You could create solid hanging panels to display your stuff on instead of drapery panels. Easy to break down and lightweight.
Edited by stephendawg 10/28/2003 2:47 PM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Luan is a plywood, thin, light, and easy to work with. The aluminum angle is about the only way to create a tri-fold, as the plywood is only about 1/8 inch thick. |
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