[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters Digest, Vol 118, Issue 6

[Jim Wilhite]

For the real valuable stuff United Freight Lines has an Electronics shipping 
service.  You can choose door to door or terminal to terminal.  The price is 
very reasonable considering so if I were to ship an expensive piece I would 
do the foam pillows in a sturdy box and use them.

There are several different thicknesses of boxes.   When computer monitors 
were analog the box they came in were ideal because they were about 2X the 
thickness of anything else and very stiff.  Also so were the boxes the 
processor shipped in.  Those of you who live in larger towns have an 
advantage.

If you will find moving businesses, most sell boxes and they usually have 
the thicker boxes.

Jim
W5JO

----- Original Message ----- 

>I think I'd call a dent -- damage to the radio.
>
> There used to be a couple of franchise places here in the Dallas area that 
> did real "foam in place" packing in double and triple wall cardboard.  I 
> shipped a lot of A-line stuff, an HRO-60 among other receivers and a 
> variety of other back breaking BAs without any dents, or other problems. 
> This was not the pillow stuff --- it was custom sprayed into the cartons 
> under around and over.  The franchise has not done well in this area 
> (although there are still stores around Houston) -- probably because most 
> people that ship stuff aren't willing to pay the cost of bullet proof 
> packing, and because the foam in place systems and multi-layer cardboard 
> or wood crating is expensive.
>
> The next time I ship a high value radio I have a commercial electronics 
> packer lined up to do the work, crating if necessary, even if it means 
> motor freight transport.  Other than The Packaging Store (the one that's 
> gone), there's no strip mall packer I'd trust to ship anything more 
> complex than a ball of styrofoam.