EQUIPMENT CHECKOUT

Published March 19, 2008

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE -- Equipment Checkout is open to all active duty, retired military and their dependents, reservists, Guardsmen and Department of Defense employees. The office is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
   The office is located in the Services Mall, Bldg. 478, southeast of Burger King. They offer a variety of rental items and services that are available to all base ID card holders. Members of the Tinker Club receive a 10 percent discount on rentals by showing their current Members First Plus! card at the time payment is due.
   In March, customers get 25 percent off any utility trailer that is checked out overnight weekdays only. Trailer sizes are 8-, 10-, 16- and 18-feet long. Weekend rates remain the same.
   Equipment Checkout has rental items that will help get lawns in shape for summer. Rental items include detachers (gas powered lawn rakes), lawn vacuums, edgers, self-propelled lawn mowers, lawn rollers, electric and gas blower/vacuums and hedge trimmers, weed eaters, sod cutters, wheelbarrows and more.
   For the garden, Equipment Checkout rents medium and large tillers small cultivators for flower beds or soil that doesn't need much work and 8 to 18 foot long utility trailers.
   Items can be rented anytime Friday and must be returned no later than 11:30 a.m. the following Monday for only one a half day rental fee. All other rentals must be returned no later than 4:30 p.m. on the return due date.
   Payments for rentals are done at the time they are picked up. Cash, check, money-order, MasterCard or Visa are accepted for payment. Equipment Checkout does not accept Discover or American Express.
   For more information, call 734-2289 and ask for the rental section.