[Boatanchors] Packing hint - was boatanchor unpacking hint

[Rob Atkinson]

It's better to leave them in the sockets but stuff the interior
cabinet with enough bubble wrap to hold them in place.

Never use peanuts.   Instead go to Lowe's or some such place and
purchase the 8 foot by 4 foot 2 inch thick slabs of styrofoam and
measure and cut them to line the inside of the box.   This styrofoam
can be scored with a box cutter then sawed with a small wood saw.  Do
this outside or you'll have millions of little pieces of charged
styrofoam flecks to clean up.

I shipped my 75A3 this way.  I used two boxes.  Get the boxes that are
double ply corrugated cardboard.  First I stuffed the A3 cabinet with
bubble wrap.  Then I put it inside a plastic bag.  That went into a
box lined with the 2 inch thick stryrofoam panels.  That box went into
a bigger box similarly lined.  I used nonexpanding insulation spray
foam to fill in.  Be sure to back the front panel knobs up against the
front panel so the force on them isn't on the PTO etc.

The A3 traveled fine this way via FedEx Ground.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I received some equipment that had peanuts inside *everywhere* I
> mad a note to put equipment inside a trash bag before it goes in with
> the peanuts. That saves an awful lot of grief. It's bad enough to have
> them falling out all over the house/shop but cleaning from inside a
> radio is even worse.
>
> I also learned to pull and label the tubes and bubble wrap them, then
> put the bubble wrapped package inside the radio for shipment. Its
> distressing to open a parcel and find the tubes came out of their
> sockets and have been bouncing around loose for hundreds of miles!
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
>
>