[Boatanchors] Packaging

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:32:22 -0700

I use sections cut from a carpet tube. These tubes are available from any carpet 
store and I cut them into 4 inch cylinders that fits over most front panel things.

WBob

John Myers wrote:

> 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
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>>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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