RE: image transfers...eww...xylene isn't something you want to be messing
with "recreationally", unless you own a downdraft extractor hood....
RE: #6 plastic...Werewulf, what's the shrink-down rate? Half size?
Smaller?
RE: hitchhikers...okay, so what do you actually do? Just put a log and
stamp inside the usual array of ziplocks with a note saying "Hi, I'm a
hitchhiker, please send me on my way?" I guess it would be pretty obvious
if you placed it in someone else's box, but what if one wanted to start one
in their own box? Is that legit?
--klk/fw
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a bunch of thoughts and questions
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Started on 2004-04-26
a bunch of thoughts and questions
From: Kathi LK Krankoski (krank@ameritech.net) |
Date: 2004-04-26 21:21:30 UTC-05:00
Re: a bunch of thoughts and questions
From: Warrior Woman (warrioringilead@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2004-04-27 13:36:11 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Kathi LK Krankoski"
wrote:
> RE: hitchhikers...okay, so what do you actually do? Just put a log
and stamp inside the usual array of ziplocks with a note saying "Hi,
I'm a hitchhiker, please send me on my way?"
In my 3 years of experience, I have found (by finding a variety of
different types of HHs) that the smaller the HH, the better. Use a
logbook that is smaller than the traditional size 3X5 spiral bound
index card deck, and try to find or make a stamp that is no larger
than the logbook.
Why? The smaller the HH, the more it will travel. I can't tell you
how many times I have found HHs with the 3X5 log, and can't replant
it in the next few boxes I find because there simply is no room in
the letterbox container to hold both the original letterbox contents
*and* the HH. The smaller, the flatter, the better. Here in New
England, letterboxes tend to be small, and fit into tight hiding
places.
But here's the fun part. *There are no rules* You can make your HH
any way you please, and let the finder take up the challenge of
replanting! We love challenges!
Regarding labeling - when you write the name of the HH on the log
book, simply write "(insert name here) HH". You may also want to
label the outermost plastic ziplock the same way. Trust me. We
letterboxers know *exactly* what to do with them when we find them!
> I guess it would be pretty obvious if you placed it in someone
else's box, but what if one wanted to start one in their own box? Is
that legit?
Assume the zen lotus position and chant along with me - "there are no
rules...there are no rules...there are no rules..." ;-)
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, but I have two
interpretations:
1. You want to start a HH with its *own* plastic (or whatever) box?
Size is the issue here again. I've seen lots of HHs in their own
box, sometimes a microbox inside a film canister, sometimes in a
sandwich sized rubbermaid container. It is doable (heck,
letterboxers are pretty creative folks), but the challenge is where
to replant it. Depending on where you hunt for LBs, there may be
plenty of room in the hiding spot for the original LB and the extra
container HH. Or not. But like I said, we like challenges!
2. You want to launch a HH in one of your own established permanent
letterboxes. Heck, I do that all the time! In fact, I made a
deliberate choice of location for one particular permanent LB of mine
that is a hitchhiker magnet because the hiding place could hold three
normal sized letterboxes! A few more of my permanent boxes have the
larger type of container (rectangular) so they can accommodate even
the larger 3X5 logbook type HH. (Okay, okay, I confess - I made
these special larger hiding places/larger containers on purpose
because I found myself carrying around larger sized HHs for weeks on
end (tsk! tsk!) because in my travels I could not find a place to
replant them. So now I have a failsafe - if all else fails, I
replant the larger HHs in these larger LBs of my own. Okay, my
secret is out!)
I hope this post has made you laugh, given you some tips, reinforced
the "there are no rules" philosophy, and given you the boost to "go
for it".
Happy boxing,
Warrior Woman
> RE: hitchhikers...okay, so what do you actually do? Just put a log
and stamp inside the usual array of ziplocks with a note saying "Hi,
I'm a hitchhiker, please send me on my way?"
In my 3 years of experience, I have found (by finding a variety of
different types of HHs) that the smaller the HH, the better. Use a
logbook that is smaller than the traditional size 3X5 spiral bound
index card deck, and try to find or make a stamp that is no larger
than the logbook.
Why? The smaller the HH, the more it will travel. I can't tell you
how many times I have found HHs with the 3X5 log, and can't replant
it in the next few boxes I find because there simply is no room in
the letterbox container to hold both the original letterbox contents
*and* the HH. The smaller, the flatter, the better. Here in New
England, letterboxes tend to be small, and fit into tight hiding
places.
But here's the fun part. *There are no rules* You can make your HH
any way you please, and let the finder take up the challenge of
replanting! We love challenges!
Regarding labeling - when you write the name of the HH on the log
book, simply write "(insert name here) HH". You may also want to
label the outermost plastic ziplock the same way. Trust me. We
letterboxers know *exactly* what to do with them when we find them!
> I guess it would be pretty obvious if you placed it in someone
else's box, but what if one wanted to start one in their own box? Is
that legit?
Assume the zen lotus position and chant along with me - "there are no
rules...there are no rules...there are no rules..." ;-)
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, but I have two
interpretations:
1. You want to start a HH with its *own* plastic (or whatever) box?
Size is the issue here again. I've seen lots of HHs in their own
box, sometimes a microbox inside a film canister, sometimes in a
sandwich sized rubbermaid container. It is doable (heck,
letterboxers are pretty creative folks), but the challenge is where
to replant it. Depending on where you hunt for LBs, there may be
plenty of room in the hiding spot for the original LB and the extra
container HH. Or not. But like I said, we like challenges!
2. You want to launch a HH in one of your own established permanent
letterboxes. Heck, I do that all the time! In fact, I made a
deliberate choice of location for one particular permanent LB of mine
that is a hitchhiker magnet because the hiding place could hold three
normal sized letterboxes! A few more of my permanent boxes have the
larger type of container (rectangular) so they can accommodate even
the larger 3X5 logbook type HH. (Okay, okay, I confess - I made
these special larger hiding places/larger containers on purpose
because I found myself carrying around larger sized HHs for weeks on
end (tsk! tsk!) because in my travels I could not find a place to
replant them. So now I have a failsafe - if all else fails, I
replant the larger HHs in these larger LBs of my own. Okay, my
secret is out!)
I hope this post has made you laugh, given you some tips, reinforced
the "there are no rules" philosophy, and given you the boost to "go
for it".
Happy boxing,
Warrior Woman
Re: a bunch of thoughts and questions
From: Werewulf (werewulfmom@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2004-04-27 19:20:22 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Kathi LK Krankoski" wrote:
>
> RE: #6 plastic...Werewulf, what's the shrink-down rate? Half size?
> Smaller?
I'm with Barbie.. math is hard.
Just measured. My original piece of plastic was about 2.5 by 3.75 inches and very skinny
and flexible. My shrunken piece is about 1.25 by 2 inches, about an eight of an inch thick
and rigid.
In Girl Scouts we use sharpie markers to decorate the plastic, so I'm guessing (without
having actually tried yet) that you could rub a sharpie over your stamp and then stamp
onto the plastic. That's my plan anyway.
Howls,
Werewulf
>
> RE: #6 plastic...Werewulf, what's the shrink-down rate? Half size?
> Smaller?
I'm with Barbie.. math is hard.
Just measured. My original piece of plastic was about 2.5 by 3.75 inches and very skinny
and flexible. My shrunken piece is about 1.25 by 2 inches, about an eight of an inch thick
and rigid.
In Girl Scouts we use sharpie markers to decorate the plastic, so I'm guessing (without
having actually tried yet) that you could rub a sharpie over your stamp and then stamp
onto the plastic. That's my plan anyway.
Howls,
Werewulf