[Boatanchors] Packaging

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:50:59 -0400

How do you protect the front panels on BA's for shipping? I always worry
about the control shafts getting stressed & bent.

John, Kd8MQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "JOE" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Packaging

> 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 <[email protected]> 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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