What are your best suggestions for protecting receivers that are being shipped. I received one a couple of weeks ago that arrived unscathed. The seller wrapped it in a shipping blanket then added some extra pieces of cardboard on each side. Seemed pretty good but I'm guessing that there might be better solutions. How do you pack em?
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What I do with heavy, awkward units is bolt them to an oversized wooden base. Take the feet off and run a bolt through the wood (3/4 inch plywood) into the unit. Big flat washers on the bolts to protect the wood.
Put the amp and base into a heavy-duty shipping box and pack it with bubble wrap. I've even gotten amps that were packed in wooden shipping boxes.
Ship all the tubes, knobs, feet, and other doo-dads in a separate container.
Put the amp and base into a heavy-duty shipping box and pack it with bubble wrap. I've even gotten amps that were packed in wooden shipping boxes.
Ship all the tubes, knobs, feet, and other doo-dads in a separate container.
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Ive shipped speaker drivers this way but with a heavy amp Id be concerned about the the box being dropped on a corner. Forty-plus pounds of weight, suddenly stopped by a bolt in a foot hole and bottom plate not designed against shear force. If the sides are packed well it would be fine but if so the bolts probably arent needed?
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my method is to take a kitchen trash bag & place it in the shipping box, open and partly fill it with low-e expanding foam, close the bag and let it partly cure. Then I place the gear in another bag atop the partially cured foam. I'll then take another bag placed on top of the gear I'm shipping and partly fill it with more foam and let it cure completely. I'll trim what spills beyond the bounds of the box, seal and ship. I've never had anything damaged in shipment and have received kudos from people who've purchased things from me regarding the quality of packaging.
As an aside, Uline makes a product that does exactly what I'm describing and is probably less messy.
I was thinking spray foam would be a good idea, and you just laid out how to do it. The cheap pillow idea is really good too, I would have never thought of that, what a simple and obvious solution. Do you guys buy over sized boxes then cut them down to fit, or have you found a source for the right size?
If the object is very heavy, imbalanced, and precious, I'd opt for a full wooden crate. Expensive, but about the best way to ensure against drop damage.
Tightly packing a strong shipping box with good bubble wrap usually protects against short-distance drops and bumps.
The problem with corrugated cardboard is that once it's been crushed or edge-damaged, its effectiveness is lost. I always pack precious items in new boxes.
Good point on new boxes. I could make wooden boxes, but hopefully that's last resort. I don't plan on shipping anything bigger than a receiver but they can be pretty heavy and fragile. The receivers I have aren't worth THAT much, like SX-727's, SX-9000. Probably the most valuable one I would consider selling is a SX-939 but I may keep that one
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I reuse packaging when shipping. I usually wrap lightly w/ bubblewrap. Then I make four corner pieces out of delivered cardboard boxes. Wrap more heavily in bubble wrap. Then fill the box with whatever I have on hand of air pillows, bubblewrap, expanded cardboard, insulation, etc. Never had a problem.
Dude! That’s a great suggestion! Thank you!
That's what I've always done, and I've sold and shipped a lot of stuff on Ebay, but usually (never) not this heavy, fragile and valuable. With the last receiver I had shipped to me, the guy did pretty good. Wrapped it in a soft moving blanket, added triple cardboard all the way around inside. But we are getting some really good suggestions here, glad I asked the question. All of these ideas are ingenious.
I don't have anything to sell yet, so I'm just educating myself and just preparing, but I'd really like to find a few of these. I tracked down the supplier on the one you posted here. Looks like they only sell in bulk. I think it was either 50 or 100 minimum. That's probably more than a life time worth for me. I will keep looking. Good suggestion.
Been a good while since I purchased any IIRC it was $60 for 100 back then.
Uline?
So a little over a bucks a box. (2)
See they have gone up considerably in the time since the few places have checked.
Never order from them yet.
As singles....