[ARC5] [Milsurplus] RAK RAL Shipping

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

I’ve used the blue stuff and 1/4” plywood for shipping things like R-390’s internationally 
with no issues reported to date.

Bob

> On Dec 29, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> On 29 Dec 2017 at 14:52, arc5 at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Yes, manufacturers do ship their stuff in styrofoam. But, if you take a piece of that blue wall 
>> board, and a piece of styrofoam packing like from Dell or someplace like that, and bounce a ball 
>> off of each one of them, you'll find that the packing from Dell is a lot more compressible than that 
>> blue wallboard. That blue wallboard, in my humble opinion, is not much better than packing your 
>> radio with two-by-fours.
> 
> I might also ask you, "Have you ever used the blue stuff?". No? Then unless you have, how 
> can you possibly compare it to a 2 X 4?
> 
> The blue styrofoam crushes. It has "give". I don't know of too many 2 X 4s which have much 
> "give".
> 
> Ken W7EkB
> 
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