27 Oct
2011
27 Oct
'11
10:21 a.m.
In article <4EA89161.22479.32D0FAD at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
On 26 Oct 2011 at 22:40, David Griffith wrote:
I've received heavy items packed this way that were damaged from shipping
because the stiff styrofoam basically transmits forces on the box directly
to the object. I've NEVER received damaged heavy items that were
cushioned with packing peanuts and no voids.
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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.