[ARC5] [Milsurplus] RAK RAL Shipping

[Glen Zook]

The problem with air pack, etc., is that the first time the unit is dropped, the absorbing disappears and the unit is rattling around the box.  Pelspan (styrofoam "peanuts") settle and leave large gaps in the protection.


Sheets of styrofoam work very well.  For almost 10-years, I owned the Motorola reconditioned equipment center for the south-central United States.  We used "foam in place" which is one step better than styrofoam sheets.  Shipments often exceeded 50-pounds and, in those 10-years, we had exactly 1-package damaged.  That was when UPS ran a forklift "tong" through the box!  For crated items, we used styrofoam sheets and there were no shipments damaged.

 Glen, K9STH 
Website: http://k9sth.net

      From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
 To: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net; Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:35 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] RAK RAL Shipping
   
I'm sorry, guys, but I just cannot wrap my head
around that stiff blue wallboard being an
effective shock absorber.  I'd like to see some
valid studies on that.  Pack a radio in a box with
that stiff blue board, put an accelerometer on one
side and smack the other with a weight.  See how
much shock energy is transmitted through the box
and therefore, through the radio.  Do the same
with the same radio in a box more conventionally
packed and I think one would see a lot of that
shock energy absorbed in compressing the much more
"compressible" material like AirPack.
 If it works for you, God bless you.  I just can't
bring myself to trust it.

   
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