8 May
2008
8 May
'08
9:21 a.m.
In article <48231670.5010909 at mdrconsult.com>,
Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> writes:
I've come to the point that if a piece of
equipment weighs more than
40 pounds and is less robust than a motor block, it needs to be in a
crate on a pallet before it leaves my sight. If it has a CRT in it,
there's just no way to guarantee safe delivery, outside a rigid crate
with several inches of shaped foam.
There are no guarantees with anything. As a collector of terminals, I
gotta tell you its ridiculous to want to put every terminal onto a
pallet! It would also make shipping costs ridiculous. For an SGI
Onyx2 deskside, yeah, a pallet is the way to go, but for a vt100?
Totally overkill.
Every time I've trusted a freight company to palletize and ship me SGI
stuff from dovebid, I've gotten stuff that was damaged and in some
cases not even packed the way the freight company told me they would
pack it.
Expandable foam, form fitted to the unit seems to work the best. After
that, packing peanuts when used properly work well. Anything less
than that and you're asking for stuff to arrive smashed and busted
because of the weight of the CRT.
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