----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I actually bought one of the adjustable ones with the strap in Ghirardelli Square about 14 years ago. It was made in Italy also. It is wonderful because the two pieces are long enough that I could take 42" plotter printouts on a trip and stuff the dirty laundry into the shortened version of the tub on the way home. ;-) As I recall, the price was about $11 (in 1984). Since then, I've seen the same tubes in art stores (I saw one in Flax, here in Westwood, about 1992). I also have two of the plumbing pipes with screwon caps. I made the handles for them by using snake tape (the 1" tape with nylon fibers in it). I will describe the method below, but it was important for me to attach the handles near one end or the other so I could both sling the whole works over a shoulder or carry it in my hand like a suitcase. How I made the handles: 1. Cut two pieces of snake tape about 3/4s the length of the pipe you're going to attach it to. Make one of them about 2.5 inches longer than then other. 2. Stick one piece of the cut tape centered on the back of the other so that you have no sticky stuff showing except a little more than 1 inch on either end. To minimize the chance of screw up here, I usually took the longer one, bent over the ends, and stuck it to a table top with the sticky side up and then laid the shorter piece on top of it. 3. Wrap snake tape around the tube a couple of inches from one end of the tube (don't cut yet), put one end of the cut piece from item 2 and wrap about two more layers of the snake tape off the roll then cut it. 4. Around half way towards the other end of the tube repeat step three. Voila! Accubesh and Resonsk (if you ever saw a Western Airlines commercial)! You have a handle! HTH. vh -- \ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California 0 Bellnet: 310.206.7588 Oo Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/~hetrick Site of the month: http://www.2chicks.org/