After hanging suspended overnight to dry, the fix on the neck seemed to of worked well enough. It is not quite right yet, but the worst of the kinking has gone.
There are a few spots that need a little more water and gentle persuasion, but that can wait until it is suspended horizontally, and the load stresses are as designed.
I decided to do a control check of all the parts of Discovery..........
As I already knew, the engine section received no damage....
The only section not yet unpacked was the spine......
When I packed it, used two thick walled cardboard tubes. I plugged each end of the smaller tube with 10mm foam board, with a hole in the center to accommodate the spine tube. Each end of the spine tube was then suspended in the cardboard tube by the foam plugs.
The smaller tube was then inserted into a larger diameter tube. As it turned out, the molding inside the end caps of the larger tube fitted perfectly over the outer diameter of the smaller tube. Bonus!
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So, a tube inside a tube inside a tube! (Edit: I get the feeling RF will start posting Mike Oldfield songs in response to that...
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And, the spine is completely undamaged!
More progress soon.....