[Hallicrafters] Collecting

[DW Holtman]

To ship heavy radios, SX-62 etc., I go to a local storage place, one of 
those places where they rent storage space by the month. . They have a 
very heavy duty box made to pack TVs. It has pleanty of width and depth 
for around 6 inches of packing (around a SX-612 size radio). The height 
is excessive, I cut it down to the desired height. They are like triple 
the strength of the boxes found at Wall Mart or Fed-Ex Kinkos. The cost 
is around $15.00. Which I do not think is excessive to ship a radio that 
I want to arrive in one piece.

Hope this helps.

Best,
DW Holtman



Roger K8RI wrote:

> Duane,
>
> Thank you from bringing this up as there have been a number of times I 
> wanted to ship something and could not find the proper box. I had 
> noted some of the smaller machine tools I have came in boxes similar 
> to what you describe and thought that would be a great way to ship 
> things if I could ever find such.
>
> If anyone thinks $19 a heavy custom box is expensive they should go to 
> one of the places that will "pack and ship" for you.  The cost would 
> be several times that for just strong boxes.
>
> 73
>
> Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
> N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
> www.rogerhalstead.com
>
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> Suggestion:
>>
>> Several years ago I needed a box capable of holding a R-390a safely 
>> and securely. I found a local company that makes boxes. They made me 
>> boxes to order, a minimum order of three per measurements.
>>
>> The burst strength is 275PSI, walls are double layered and 3/8 thick, 
>> corregated and so forth. The price was $57 total, or $19 per box. 
>> Thsi may soun dhigh, but the end result was a box more than capable 
>> of holding the weight of the R-390a for shipping across the country, 
>> as well as being capable of being saved and used again.
>>
>> The construction of these boxes was nothing like the kind you can 
>> purchase at Staples or Office Max! This box was strong and durable in 
>> every sense of the term. Absolutely no need to double box, as it was 
>> far stronger than two boxes already!
>>
>> If you have heavy or high value objects to ship, I highly recommend 
>> this approach! Anyone who spends hundreds of dollars to buy an item 
>> and then complains about having to pay $25 for good packing materials 
>> to protect the item, in my opinion, is foolish.
>>
>> It worked for me, hope it works for you also.
>>
>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "TC Dailey" 
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>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:01 PM
>> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Collecting
>>
>>
>>> If not for so-called hoarding, we never would have had the archival 
>>> joy of
>>> Chuck Dachis' collection... or perhaps even this reflector, itself.
>>> Speaking of that - I do have a "Spare" SX-62A, if somebody's 
>>> interested.
>>> It's in Denver, and I have no box for it - hard enough to find one 
>>> for an
>>> SX-71 that's been promised to RivPapa for some time.
>>>
>>> Tom
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