On 02/11/2013 11:16 AM, Ron Simmons
wrote:
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I have shipped
over 60 ¡.400 series
scopes all around the country. IMO the best
packaging is bubble wrap. Its
expensive but does the job really well.
In my career
in computer peripheral sales
I watched many a customer do what their packaging
engineers ?called the ¡°shake
and bake¡± ?( temperature and shock and vibration
testing) on products
that they were about to purchase ( thousands of
them) and ship globally. As to
packaging, they said the ?best was ¡°foam in place¡±
where the unit
sealed in plastic ?is immersed in a liquid that
turns into form fitting
hardened foam.? The worst protection the packaging
engineers said was ?¡°peanuts¡±
because they tended to shift in the box resulting in
too much peanuts in one
place and none in another.
As to bubble
wrap, they said it was great
stuff but far too expensive to use in high volume
shipments. For my purposes, a
good sturdy box and a scope wrapped with several
layers of bubble wrap always
did the job spot on
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Does anyone know the maximum temperature for bubble wrap?
My reason for asking is that this stuff would seem to be ideal for
attic insulation but never seems to be used that way.... fire
hazard???
This plus that nice 7K packing box I have stored in the attic.
Bert
