Re: Sources for shipping cartons for vintage Tek scopes?
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--- On Mon, 2/11/13, Tom Miller wrote:
From: Tom Miller <tmiller11147@...>
Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Re: Sources for shipping cartons for vintage Tek scopes?
To: TekScopes@...
Date: Monday, February 11, 2013, 4:33 PM
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Absolutely a fire hazard.
But you should ask your insurance company first.
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Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Re: Sources for shipping cartons for vintage Tek scopes?
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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
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