I have a theory, not tested in practice yet, about shipping something that has a heavy chassis inside of a less robust envelope. Be it a heavy reciever that has a wooden case around it or a tube chassis inside of a bakelite case.
It involves the transfer of forces applied. Quite succinctly if the envelope is fragile, what about bolting/screwing using the the mounts themselves (feet, or whatever is used to secure the case to the heavier chassis) to, for example a sheet ( or box) of plywood/mdf larger than the footprint of the object, the idea being to protect the case from packing material contact. The shock of the impact would be directed to the wooden armor, then to the heavy chassis , bypassing the fragile envelope of the case (the case is just literally "along for the ride"), rather than allow the heavy internals to wreck havoc on the case?
Then that box is packed in the usual manner, i.e. cushioning etc...
I know..... Trying to get the typical ebay seller to do it may be hard, unless they CARE about the gear.
But I have read too many recent horror stories about some gear that was shipped by someone who CARED, and still arrived trashed by the shipping company.
Any comments?? (other than the obvious about lazy/incompetent packers??)
It involves the transfer of forces applied. Quite succinctly if the envelope is fragile, what about bolting/screwing using the the mounts themselves (feet, or whatever is used to secure the case to the heavier chassis) to, for example a sheet ( or box) of plywood/mdf larger than the footprint of the object, the idea being to protect the case from packing material contact. The shock of the impact would be directed to the wooden armor, then to the heavy chassis , bypassing the fragile envelope of the case (the case is just literally "along for the ride"), rather than allow the heavy internals to wreck havoc on the case?
Then that box is packed in the usual manner, i.e. cushioning etc...
I know..... Trying to get the typical ebay seller to do it may be hard, unless they CARE about the gear.
But I have read too many recent horror stories about some gear that was shipped by someone who CARED, and still arrived trashed by the shipping company.
Any comments?? (other than the obvious about lazy/incompetent packers??)
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