July Pick Up Thread

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Love the frame....front and back....and that team had just a few legends, it's like Where's Waldo, HOFer after HOFer.

https://blog.ha.com/2017/05/first-dr...hia-athletics/


If interested in it as always it's available, pm me.

Killer display Paul

[stone193]

I finally got around to zeroing in on Hostess cards from the 70s.

My idea was to get the panels and reconstruct the boxes as I've done with 60s player wax boxes.

It's been reported that a "warehouse find" of unused flat boxes caused the bottom to fall out on these cards?

That's fine with me since these HOF'ers can be had for less than 10 bucks in some cases - the Yount RC was a whopping 25 bucks.

And what's cool is that the Blyleven wound up being an HOFer along with Seaver.

So, in reconstructing, I fortify the box with foam core and then shrink wrap the box - so here we go:

[ocjack]

Originally Posted by stone193

I finally got around to zeroing in on Hostess cards from the 70s.

My idea was to get the panels and reconstruct the boxes as I've done with 60s player wax boxes.

It's been reported that a "warehouse find" of unused flat boxes caused the bottom to fall out on these cards?

That's fine with me since these HOF'ers can be had for less than 10 bucks in some cases - the Yount RC was a whopping 25 bucks.

And what's cool is that the Blyleven wound up being an HOFer along with Seaver.

So, in reconstructing, I fortify the box with foam core and then shrink wrap the box - so here we go:

May I ask, how are you reproducing the box itself. I assume you don't have many boxes sans bottom panel to use. Btw, they look great.

[stone193]

Hi

Thanx!

As I said in the intro - these panels were probably a warehouse find - never used in the production of the product - thus they're not bent.

Here's a Yount on eBay for 24 bucks:



Haven't checked yet but I'm guessing the 75's are more plentiful as a complete panel compared to the later issues.

It would've been super if they had used Brett in 1975 to go along with Yount.

[ooo-ribay]

I like your style, stone! That’s something I would do if I could shrink wrap. I’m assuming you need a special “shrink wrap machine”?

[stone193]

Deleted

[stone193]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I like your style, stone! That’s something I would do if I could shrink wrap. I’m assuming you need a special “shrink wrap machine”?

Hiya Rob thanx.



You can pick up a kit on eBay - there's a little learning curve to using the heat gun to shrink the wrap - it's easy to burn the wrap - just have to learn to "wave" the gun around while shrinking.

Here's an example on eBay.

I got a 12" sealer and a packet of shrink wrap combined for less than 100 bucks. I didn't see any like that but a search might do the trick.

You can find a "how to" on youtube which will help if needed.