Shipping Tales

[Dick Blaney]

For soft wrapping to ship small, fragile items like tubes, I wrap them
individually with disposable baby diapers, (unused, of course), to
cushion them, then pack double boxed with the usual precautions.  The
cheaper diapers seem to be thicker and have more padding than those
more expensive "designer" fitted types.  Hope it helps.
73 de
Dick, WB8MHE
wb8mhe at bright.net

-----Original Message-----
From: wier at calcite.rocky.edu <wier at CALCITE.ROCKY.EDU>
To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: Shipping Tales


>>> I ship vacuum tubes which, as everyone in electronics knows, are
>>> extremely fragile. The ONLY way to ship fragile items like vacuum
tubes
>>
>
>I've also had pretty good luck with fragile items of a smaller
>size by cutting pieces of PVC sewer pipe to an appropriate length
>and putting things inside with enough packing so they don't
>rattle around. For larger items, I've occasionally cut PVC
>sewer into 4 pieces and taped them in the inside corners of
>the cardboard box, which increases crush resistance quite a bit
>(particularly if the box ends up on the bottom of a stack on
>a handcart).
>
>FWIW
>
>73's de WB5KXH
>
>--Bob Wier
>
>wierNULSPAM at calcite.rocky.edu
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