I need a crash course on box installation
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:17 am
I've never been involved in a box installation before, I need someone to educate me about what goes on.
The HS I am coaching at now has this old yellow Stackhouse fiberglass box. A year or two ago they had their track redone. They did the PV box area, but it doesn't fit the Stackhouse box. They did not permanently affix the yellow box... it was sitting in one of the storage areas until today. But it doesn't fit:
OBVIOUS PROBLEM. I showed this picture to my non-pole vaulting husband who immediately identified that there was a giant lip on the box. Lip issues aside, there is also the issue of it raining a lot out here, and the water gets under the yellow box and makes it float.
So we pulled the yellow box out and just vaulted with whatever is underneath, I'll call it the non-box. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture, but I will take one tomorrow. It's not a metal box, but it's not just concrete either, maybe some kind of plasticky material? It's a little deeper than a normal box, maybe 9 or 10 inches deep, but otherwise the dimensions seem to be about normal. I know it's not a BOX because there is a slight gap in some places where the corners meet.
The non-box sits perfectly flush with the runway. So I am pretty sure that even if we got a normal metal box, there would at least be a small lip.
Anyway, I am contacting the AD to see if he can dig up the paperwork on the track installation so I can find out more about how they did this installation.
Anyway, I am having a hard time articulating what I am trying to say, so just reply what you know about box installations, maybe it will help. Or you can just comment and say, "man, that's some lip!"
The HS I am coaching at now has this old yellow Stackhouse fiberglass box. A year or two ago they had their track redone. They did the PV box area, but it doesn't fit the Stackhouse box. They did not permanently affix the yellow box... it was sitting in one of the storage areas until today. But it doesn't fit:
OBVIOUS PROBLEM. I showed this picture to my non-pole vaulting husband who immediately identified that there was a giant lip on the box. Lip issues aside, there is also the issue of it raining a lot out here, and the water gets under the yellow box and makes it float.
So we pulled the yellow box out and just vaulted with whatever is underneath, I'll call it the non-box. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture, but I will take one tomorrow. It's not a metal box, but it's not just concrete either, maybe some kind of plasticky material? It's a little deeper than a normal box, maybe 9 or 10 inches deep, but otherwise the dimensions seem to be about normal. I know it's not a BOX because there is a slight gap in some places where the corners meet.
The non-box sits perfectly flush with the runway. So I am pretty sure that even if we got a normal metal box, there would at least be a small lip.
Anyway, I am contacting the AD to see if he can dig up the paperwork on the track installation so I can find out more about how they did this installation.
Anyway, I am having a hard time articulating what I am trying to say, so just reply what you know about box installations, maybe it will help. Or you can just comment and say, "man, that's some lip!"
