[Heathkit] Packing an SB-221 for shipping

[Rick Poole]

At 02:59 PM 4/10/2012, rbethman wrote:

 >>>>>
>Not to mention that whomever gets it, may simply turn it on after
>unpacking,
<<<<<

Actually I'm the one who is receiving it, and while I'm not sure my 
XYL will agree, I'm fairly confident I'll remember to pull it apart 
and inspect it and remove packing material, etc. before turning it on :-).

Ameritron has a neat trick to avoid that... they ship the AL-811H 
with everything installed but packing material around the tubes, then 
they take the fuseholders and fuses and tape them to the top of the 
power transformer, and put a big sign on the top of the amp alerting 
the owner that he has to remove the top cover to get at the fuses and 
fuse holders... then hopefully he will notice that gee, there seems 
to be a bunch of foreign matter all around my tubes... :-)

The seller of the amp has decided not to remove anything but to add 
packing material and bracing material to the tubes and transformer 
per my request... nothing much I can do about that except hope it 
gets here in one piece, or walk away from the deal.