[Boatanchors] Packaging

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:45:52 -0500

One of the things I have done in the past is to cut corregated box material into
strips about 2-3" wide.  Roll these strips into a flattened spiral (oval shaped) roll
about
2-3" in width.  Tape in a couple of places to prevent unrolling and use for
spacers between a flat part of panel and side of box.  Filll the "void" areas
with plastic peanuts or crumpled up newspaper.  Another method is to use
cut styrofoam strips custom cut for the job at hand.  It is easily cut with
a box knife and them broken off the size desired.  Sheet styrofoam 1-2"
thick in fact makes excellent packing material all around the piece of gear
you intend shipping!  If you have only 1", it can be doubled easily.
Sheet syrofoam is much more durable and protective than plastic peanuts as well!
73,
Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Myers" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Packaging


| 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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