23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
9:25 a.m.
I had a guy ship a IBM 6091-19 monitor to me that way. I had a tough
time cleaning the screen afterwards. He used a good heavy garbage bag,
but the foam must have slightly attacked the plastic. When I opened it,
the screen had the print of the wadded up garbage bag on it. I
eventually did clean it off. I think I finally removed the last of it
with acetone then used RainX to finish it off. I of course had the
plastic case removed.
Monitor $5 or $10
Shipping $45 :-)
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Doc wrote:
The ultimate packing material is plastic garbage
bags and aerosol
styrofoam. Bag the shipped item, and seal it with tape. Put an empty
garbage bag in the carton, and spray enough foam into the bag to build a
3" bed. Let it set till firm but not solid, or use ~3" spacer blocks to
support the item. Set it on the foam bed. Put a bag at each corner and
on top, fill with foam, close **** and weight **** the lid. The
aerosol styrofoam expands and fills in gaps and crannies, effectively
making a custom fitted crate. It's relatively very expensive, but if
you're shipping very valuable and/or fragile hardware, it's much better
than anything else I know. Plus, if you're going to move the item
repeatedly, the packing, with reasonable care, will last three or four
moves.