Packing Tips

Here is how I packed a Wards Airline tube chassis.

This chassis is detailed on the AIRLINE page. The pilot lamps were unclipped turned upside down and replaced on the lamp brackets, behind the metal dial scale support.	Top view. All the tubes have to be protected from coming out of the socket and smashing around. The eye tube adaptor was removed and tie wrapped under the support arm. This takes the torque off of the eye tube base.	Mesh the tuning capacitor so the moving plates are with in the fixed plates. The chassis is set on Styrofoam to protect the exposed electronic components. Completely cove the chassis in plastic so peanuts will not tangle and make a mess.	The glass dial scale is protected with soft foam rubber.	Shot of the protected chassis underside.
Put a few inches of peanuts in the bottom of the box.	Insure three (3) inches minimum clearance from the chassis and components.	> 3"	Here too.	3" to the chassis under the black foam rubber.
An extra foam rubber pad is taped across some exposed tubes.	Add peanuts	Peanuts must cover above the chassis to compensate for settling.	Snuggle in the protected extras. These are two tubes, old dial glass and a bag of original components containing the old eye tube.	Gently bounce the carton to settle the peanuts.
Tape up all mating edges. Black out any other bar codes or shipping labels. This is the carton and materials the chassis was received in. It is in good condition. Do not reuse questionable packing materials. You probably put more than a week of labor in your chassis. Don't compromise your efforts buy saving a few bucks on packing materials.			A word about insurance. I prefer to insure restored chassis at a level where the shipper takes greater care with your package. For a given level of insurance (say $1000) some shippers have each handler sign off on the package's integrity before accepting it to their department/phase of shipping. Ask the truck drivers. They know. The counter people may not. I think that puts the odds in your favor of a minimally abuse package arriving home.

Packing a whole Philco 40-150 wood cabinet radio.

This is the radio packed. I put extra packing materials (paper or small bubble wrap) inside the cabinet, placed the power cord inside so the owner will have to remove the back to get the power cord. They should see the extra packing material on top of the tubes.	three inches of bubble wrap in the bottom	Place radio wrapped in 2 to 4 inches of bubble wrap. A piece of cardboard has been cut and positioned over the speaker grill and glass dial scale.
Three inches plus the two inches of bubble wrap.	Check all the sides. This shows a little less than three. But there is two to three inches of bubble wrap taped around the radio.
	Pack tight with peanuts or more bubble wrap. Make sure you put a little more than what you think you need. This will compensate for settling.	There is no concaved/inward droop of the top flaps. The top is puffed out a little. That helps confirm you put enough packing in the box. 30# ready to go to the post office or other shipper. Insured of course.