[R-390] OT - ART-13 info / help / parts / suggestions.

[Barry Williams]

I bought a RBL-5 from a guy in L.A. for $50. Les Locklear had steered me 
to the auction and I got it. After a week or so I contacted the owner. 
He tracked it missent to someplace like Minnesota. Told UPS it was 
originally addressed to me in Alabama. They sent it back to L.A., and he 
resent it but it ended up in Texas. More of the same communications and 
it was finally shipped to me. It was in UPS transit for about 3 weeks!

The box looked like the proverbial soccer ball. Rounded corners, torn 
corners, and signs of abuse. I dreaded opening it, but out rolled a huge 
ball of small pieces of foam held together with duct tape. I rolled it 
out on the floor and began untaping about 50-60 pieces of foam. The 
radio was in mint condition. Tubes were still seated well in the 
sockets, etc.


Barry

> Barry
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> FedEX did better by me.
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> Guy sends me a nice SP-600. Guy did a terrible pack on the set. He used a throwaway style beer cooler for packing material inside a single cardboard box. The set didn't even fit in the cooler. He just cut out parts of the corners and laid it against the set. Packed with peanuts and set was loose inside a big FedEx box. Needless to say, got here with a hole in side of the box where the set bashed its way thru the box. Wife signs for box accepting shipment(!) and delivery guy runs off. I explain to her to check shipments from for damage. Don't accept busted containers !
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> SP-600 chassis was trashed. Made claim and FedEX paid in full ! They took the set, but I got all my money back. Tragedy, as the SP-600 was nice.
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> Paul - WB2NMI
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