Call a few shipping places and ask if they have a Sealed Air
foam packing machine. I used to work for ElectroRent (a big
computer rental company) and they shipped machines all over the
world with very little loss using the stuff. I personally had
boxes that had been absolutely destroyed during shipping (square
box was delivered more or less spherical) and the equipment was
just fine. Probably a little pricey, but also probably worth
it for the rarer stuff.
Bill
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Bill Whitson - Classic Computers ListOp
bill(a)booster.u.washinton.edu or bcw(a)u.washington.edu
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~bcw