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reelsmith.

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In Reply to: RE: Ouch posted by 1973shovel on June 07, 2022 at 06:14:15

...a factory box is key.
I have home-brewed my own Mc packaging a few times. Its not cheap to get right and it is very time consuming.
Its a PITA, but bolting the unit to a piece of plywood cut to fit tightly in the inner box has worked well for me.
You have to assume the item will be poorly handled by the carrier and take preemptive measures.
Dean.

reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.

Edits: 06/24/22

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"bolting the unit to a piece of plywood" - 1973shovel 17:12:55 06/30/22 (0)
I spoke with a former McIntosh owner about this thread, via email, and he said Audio Classics bolted his Mac to plywood too, when it was shipped to him.

I agree with you that an owner has to take extreme measures when shipping fragile items. I've seen pictures of McIntosh units, knobs removed, with plywood covering the glass, with appropriate holes drilled to accommodate shafts.

It's one of the things you just can't be too careful with. It's nice to hope your package is going to be treated with ultimate care. But when you imagine a distribution center with tens of thousands of packages moving through it each day, something's occasionally going to fall of a convertor belt or be dropped by someone.

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