27 Oct
2011
27 Oct
'11
5:45 a.m.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Steven Hirsch wrote:
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I buy most of my packing materials from a shop in Bakersfield that appears
to sell them individually. How many do you need?
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David Griffith
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On 26 Oct 2011 at 22:40, David Griffith wrote:
I would have thought that material to be overly rigid. Glad to hear that
you've had success with it.
I'm trying to chase down a source for small quantities of InstPak RT bags.
These are gray plastic bags with a two-part foam system inside. You break a
capsule at one end by pushing on it and wrap it around the item. It expands
and custom-fabricates a corner or end section.
They are ~$3-4 each, but the distributors want you to buy them in cartons of
36. I've shipped a few IMSAIs and Altairs. These
things weigh around 45
pounds. My usual thing is to wrap it in enough large pink bubblewrap
to turn it into a marshmellow: about six inches of wrap all around.
Put it in a box with four or so inches of clearance and put blocks of
styrofoam in that clearance. Never had a machine arrive broken from
packing. There was a time though that a monitor was damaged because
what looked like two foot long spikey thing slammed into the top of
the box. A friend of mine lost an Atari Abaq when some doofus drove a
forklift through the box.
I use the extruded styrofoam insulation available from most big box
home stores. I construct a "box within a box" using it and then use
extra pieces to brace the object so it won't move. It works very
well. The stuff cuts by simply scoring with a utility knife and then
bending to snap the section off. Usually provided in 1" thickness.
in either 2x8' or 4x8' sheets. It's quite a bit stronger than
ordinary sheet stryofoam.