Rainbow box

P-JO

P-JO

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Heres a box I built a while ago. Although I only got to ski it for one season, because I left it at my local hill, and there happens to be a skatepark right next to it, so some skateboarders/bikers decided to drag it over there and destroy it. I'm over it though.

Anyways, its not that hard to build, if anyone wants to know how, lemme know. The hardest part was putting the coping on the side, and we found out its really unecessary.

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Thats prior to the destruction.

Aight I should just explain how to build it.

Supplies:

3 - Sheets of about 1/2 inch to 1 inch thick plywood, I used 8x4 foot long ones, I'd suggest at least 10x4 though

Numerous 2x4 inch wood boards to use as connectors

Sheets of Lexan or any material plastic you can find. We went to a SIGN shop and checked their junkyard and found some Lexan sheets from an old sign.

The coping is pretty much unecessary.

Step 1

Take 2 of the sheets, start at the 2 foot mark on the 4 foot side, then cut a rainbow shape, try to make the peak only be a foot higher, but you can do whatever you want. Now after you do that you should have 4 peices, the beginning of the rail and the end. If you look at my rail, the 2nd part would fit on top of the first part.

I'd recommend cutting the lip down a bit though, it was hard to actually air off that big of lip with out a lot of speed.

Step 2

Connect the peices with 2x4s, I made my rail 2 feet wide, could be skinier. At the top connect them so the 2x4s are flat so you can lay more plywood on the top of the rail.

Step 3

Cut the lexan, screw it down on top, make sure you make like a divit where you put the screws in so they are not sticking out

Step 4

I think thats it

Hope that makes sense...
 
We used steel or aluminum fence coping... steel is ideal, but I think ours was aluminum because it was easier to bend to the rail. Although the coping is not necessary at all and was the hardest part to drill on.

Don't know how thick the lexan is, just make sure you can flex it.
 
that is so sick. did u run 2x4s across the top to screw the lexan into or what did u screw it into?
 
for the coping you can use that flexable pvc, i think its called cpvc or something. its like a tanish color and real flexible. im gonna try makie one of these
 
cpvc isnt that soft, its not as hard as pvc but i dont think my edges would get caught up. i would put tyhe coping even with the plastic anyway so it wouldt get screwed up
 
shiiit i wanted to see a pic of this and bump the old thread... hope everyones summer jibs are sick... i made a beer pong table this summer instead..haha... its sick though... the table probably cost like $50 to build, so I hope everyone gives that shit a shot..
 
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