Shipping older radios & insurance claims

[Greg Gore; WA1KBQ]

When you buy a microwave oven, computer or a TV the packaging is  always 
designed by a packaging engineer to best absorb and distribute the forces  likely 
to be encountered in the shipping process. When old second hand radio  
equipment is shipped a packaging engineer is never called upon. The proper way  to 
ship is to absorb the impact on the 8 corners with thick styrofoam corner  
protectors but no one ever does this. Instead just about all packing is done so  
forces are directly applied to front panels and knobs so that everything is  
bent, warped and twisted. Why don't we pack so forces are taken and distributed  
at the strongest point on the cabinets, namely the 8 corners? We go out and 
pay  $50 for a huge roll of bubble wrap or worse yet, the dreaded styrofoam  
peanuts convinced we know what we are doing and when things go wrong  it's gotta 
be the other guy's fault. After all we have been shipping for 25  years or 
whatever so if something happens it can't be our fault can  it?
 
Greg



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