[Elecraft] Packing Peanuts -- I HATE THEM !

[Fred Jensen]

My combat comm team in Vietnam and Laos was "adopted" by the people in 
the small hometown of one of my troops.  They sent us a box every week 
to 10 days with all sorts of stuff to eat, read, and wear.  They packed 
them with popcorn.  We ate that too.  They published the letters we 
wrote to them in the weekly newspaper and started salting the popcorn 
when one of my troops mentioned it as a joke :-)

Styrofoam packing peanuts seem to self-generate a static charge ... I 
guess it's what makes them fly around when you're trying to cram them 
into the trash can.  Maybe its not a problem but I'd be wary of putting 
them and solid state electronics in the same box.  I haven't noticed the 
problem with the biodegradable ones.

I shipped my K2 to W3FPR awhile back.  I wrapped it in one layer of 
bubble wrap, and then cushioned it in the box with crumpled newspaper. 
I didn't double box it, sent it USPS Priority Mail, and it got there and 
back just fine.

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA

On 2/27/2011 12:23 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Real popcorn was used in the USA as far back as WWII and I saw it tested by
> a few companies in the 60's and 70's. It was 'dry popped' (no oil).