[ARC5] [Milsurplus] RAK RAL Shipping

[Robert Eleazer]

I shipped an R-390 to Japan using a cardboard box with white packaging Styrofoam between the radio and the cardboard and a piece of plywood just under the top for reinforcement.   Seems to have worked Okay; the buyer did not complain.  Could be that heavy radios are too hard to throw across the room or dropkick into the truck.

Worst packaging job ever was a HW-18 that the seller wrapped in paper - just paper - stuck the mike inside the radio and sent it that way.  It survived seemingly Okay.  But the Command Set transmitter mounted on a rack that was put in a cardboard box with balled up newspapers as cushioning arrived so badly damaged that I have not even begun to work on it.  Even figuring out what to do to fix the bent case will be a challenge.   And the cardboard box was not hurt.

I recently bought a BC-348 on ebay that was shipped in a large Styrofoam box that splits into two halves, top and bottom, and I have to admit it did quite well.

Wayne 
WB5WSV 

    

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