Shipping a Tek 'scope

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I'm not reading here much at present, not until I eventually get all my collection moved, but I did just get offered a Tek 545A which is languishing in a garage down in Texas, so figured I'd ask about shipping it safely. Weight seems to be 65lbs according to the manual, but I've not poked any shipping companies yet to see how much it'll cost to get it up here to MN - perhaps it'll end up being just too costly on those grounds. Current owner's happy to pack it for me and drop it off to a shipping company (and apparently they have a Craters and Freighters about 5 miles away from them). Obviously styrofoam "poodle poop" is not a good idea - presumably a higher-density material of some kind would be good, and something that's not going to shift around too much. I wondered about some slabs of that styrofoam stuff they use as house insulation, cut to fit, but maybe that's *too* solid and won't absorb any impacts. Oh, and obviously something softer would be needed on an inner layer to protect all the controls at the front of the 'scope... Do people recommend pulling the tubes/valves and packing and shipping separately, or will they likely be OK in-situ? I'd be doing a strip-down of it anyway (it's not run in a couple of decades) - but with over 100 of them it's a lot of work for the current owner, plus I hate getting stuff already-dismantled and prefer making notes as I disassemble it myself. cheers Jules