23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
4:08 p.m.
Doc wrote:
The ultimate packing material is plastic garbage
bags and aerosol
styrofoam. Bag the shipped item, and seal it with tape. Put an empty
garbage bag in the carton, and spray enough foam into the bag to build a
3" bed. Let it set till firm but not solid, or use ~3" spacer blocks to
support the item. Set it on the foam bed. Put a bag at each corner and
on top, fill with foam, close **** and weight **** the lid. The
aerosol styrofoam expands and fills in gaps and crannies, effectively
making a custom fitted crate. It's relatively very expensive, but if
you're shipping very valuable and/or fragile hardware, it's much better
than anything else I know. Plus, if you're going to move the item
repeatedly, the packing, with reasonable care, will last three or four
moves.
That is hard to say. For one company I worked for, a rack mounted PC
and some other equipment was lost when a fork lift was driven into
the wooden packing crate as it was being shipped to a Trade Show.
If you want to get it there in one piece it may be best to move it
yourself if
possible.
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