[R-390] FastPack Box

[Joe Koester]

I have shipped a couple of heavy things, including a Hallicrafters SX-42, and a Zenith chair side radio (quite big).  I found it easy to make a custom sized box out of 1/4 inch luan plywood with 1 x 4 on all the edges.  I glued the 1 x 4 to each piece of plywood and then screwed the whole thing together with drywall screws.  Then went to Lowe's and got some 1 inch thick foam insulation with I put in the box.  To help ensure easier handling I drilled holes in each side of the box and installed rope handles.  All these items arrived safely, with one exception, the rectifier tube in the SX-42 was broken.

Also made a very large box the same way and shipped two E.H. Scott consoles and chassis and speakers to England.  I just made this box and packed the items and a truck came by my home and picked it up. This also arrived without any damage at all.

Joe


-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob kb8tq
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 11:07 AM
To: R-390 Forum <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [R-390] FastPack Box

Hi

Having shipped a few radios to various parts of the world - one thing to watch out for is max outer dimensions.
Depending on who you ship with (and where to) the rules vary a bit. One fairly typical rule is to add up the dimensions and they need to come out under a magic number. For UPS it’s length (longest dim) + 2X width + 2X height must be less than 165 inches. It looks like FedEx now is the same (they didn’t used to be). DHL is happy if you are under 1.2 x 1.2 x 1.5 meters ( !!!! )

If you are going to ship the power supply *in* the radio, forget about sponge rubber (= flexible) foam. It simply isn’t up to the task. Some sort of rigid foam needs to be used. Foam in place is one way to go. The foam insulating boards from the big box stores work. Fair Radio used to use rolled up (as opposed to crushed) newspaper.

Bob


> On Feb 26, 2019, at 11:31 AM, Don Reaves <donreaves at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In 2003, I sold an R-389 to a collector in Spain;  he had me ship it 
> to Rick Mish of Miltronix for refurb before Rick shipped it on to 
> Spain.  Rick sent me one of his reusable FastPack boxes for shipping 
> to Ohio.  The fast pack was a double wall box with glued in 2 inch 
> thick foam panels sized exactly for the R-390 series receivers.  That 
> was the inner box, the outer box was a recycled Pitney Bowes machine box, again double walled, with
> panels of white foam to surround the inner box.   This totaled up to be 115
> pounds.  In 2003, that cost $98.76 to ship from my QTH to Rick's by UPS.
> Today that shipping cost might approach a down payment on your own 
> Boeing
> 747 freighter.
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