[AMRadio] Tube Shipping Question

[John Lyles]

By trucker and by air freight. Big tubes are usually shipped with these 
requirements, "no off loads or transfers, air ride equipped van."
All three major tube manufacturers still ship their big and costly tubes 
in a wooden crate, the tube being tightly clamped in a caddy in the 
middle that floats in spring suspension. Its amazing to see how many 
come in with either a fork lift punched hole or the corner smashed in. 
Amazingly, the tubes are fine. They also have shock watches and other 
indicators on the crates nowadays, so that claim can be filed against 
the shipper as soon as they unload it at the dock. We try to hi pot and 
visually inspect a suspect tube from a damaged crate within hours to get 
the ball rolling.

For smaller tubes in cardboard boxes and foam surrounds as discussed 
here, its pretty much the UPS/FEDEX route with all the incipient hazards 
mentioned.
73
John
K5PRO


> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:37:12 -0500
> From: Geoff<w5omr at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] mailing tubes
> To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
> On 6/1/2012 3:35 PM, John Coleman wrote:
>> The Big EIMAC TUBEs ONCE HAD THE BIG SPRING SUSPENTION DEVICE IN A LARGE
>> BOX, BUT STILL I WONDER HOW THOSE WERE SHIPPED AROUND BACK WHEN.
>> Was it just an awareness thing.
>> John , WA5BXO
>>
>
> Back in the day when people took pride in the work they did.
> Getting harder and harder to find that, nowadays.