[ARC5] [Milsurplus] RAK RAL Shipping

[J Mcvey]

I received some Hallicrafters HT37 and HT38's packed in some kind dense yellow foam boards which had foil on one side.The transmitters which weigh about 80 lbs apiece survived the trip half way across the country. So for super heavy radios it appears to work fine too.Personally, I use the "white boards". If it's an extra heavy piece , I put a cardboard baffle between the radio and the Styrofoam to minimize gouging from rough handling.



 

    On Friday, December 29, 2017 12:26 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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