[Boatanchors] Packaging

[JOE]

Hello Paul,

Many people just put the radio in a box and throw some stuff around it.  I 
try to double-box everything and pack the tubes separately.  If I do leave 
the tubes in, I put a plastic shopping bag inside the radio and carefully 
fill it with shipping peanuts until it fills up the empty voids in the 
radio case.  This seems to work well in some radios and makes it easy to 
unpack.  You do have to be careful of tuning capacitors, etc, that can get 
deformed.

73, Joe, K1ike


At 07:43 PM 10/4/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>--- JOE <k1ike@snet.net> wrote:
> > I think that some people just don't realize what packing is required
> > when a  radio is shipped.
>
>Aren't we supposed to remove the tubes and pack them securely, so that
>they will not fall out of their sockets? Sometimes on these older rigs the
>tubes are a little loose. Really, I thought that was standard procedure
>with collectors, right?
>73,
>Paul K4PDM

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