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[rabies_70]

What do y'all think is the best way to store these little darlings?



I have these industrial totes I store everything in. You see them in the aisles at stores...all their products get shipped to the stores from the distribution hubs in them. I was thinking of this stuff

http://www.instapakquick.com/products/protective/instapak/quick/instapakquick_works.html#rt

But I thought I would defer to the others who have already dealt with storing tubes. Also, do I have to, or should I do anything special with the glycol during storage, Like remove it. I sure don't want to screw up the mintyness of the tube assemblies because of my ignorance.

[wallace123456]

Interesting stuff.

I sent some tubes out a while ago. I used TOO much bubble wrap around each tube, with TOO much styrofoam peanuts for packing in a TOO big of a box (thick cardboard, not the cheap stuff).

Tubes made it to Canada just fine.

wallace

[Brooklyn]

I recently send some tubes, I had some medium density foam in 2" thickness that I cut up to custom fit the CRTs. I double boxed them and put packing peanuts in between the 2 boxes. I wrapped some other thin foam around and out past the end of the neck to reduce neck stress when dropped as much as possible. I wish I had taken pictures. They both made is safely to France(via USPS) I sold them to a guy on this forum, so if you know who you are, did you take pictures when you got them?

[Moose]

Wow, I like that Insta Packing stuff. I've received a few items packed like that. I'll bet it's expensive though, and where can it be found?

[Chuchuf]

I've used insta pack and it is awesome. You want to take up all the volume with it so the tube can't move.
Forget popcorn or packing nuts.
The main thing you wat to protect is the neck of the tube. You have a large mass on the face of the tube which obviously needs to go down. You don't want the mass to move in any direction and you don't want the neck to move. The way Sony sent these was with a cardboard arrangement that holds the face and housing in place and then they had a fe pieces of cardboard that would go inside the box with holes in the a bout the same size of the neck to support it.
Make sure you mark you box fragile and This Side Up.

Terry

[Elaine Benes]

If you're just storing them, and not shipping them, just stand them up on a shelf in a dry room...

[Moose]

Remember one thing about tubes: they're shipped in crt projectors all the time without neck support and not only that, they have all those heavy neck components attached. They do, of course, break ever so often but overall they arrive safely. This tells me that you only need support the bell end and the neck needs no support at all.

[Fujifrontier]

HAHA. that instapak gave me an idea.

Think if you got enough of them, you could make a custom body mould? that'd be COOL!

[kschmit2]

[Zebu Fellenz]

If all you are doing is storing the tubes I would simply put them on a shelf where you are sure they won't be knocked over.

[Fujifrontier]

[Fujifrontier]

[rabies_70]

Thanks for all the input. Y'all. Aside from the expensive insta pack stuff, I think I will go with the lots of bubble wrap method. Standing the tubes up on a shelf would never work. Everyone here is accident prone and sure as sh*t they would get knocked over. This is the type of crates I have acquired over the last couple of years.



Very sturdy but they aren't exactly lightweight. We packed almost all our belongings in these when we moved from Texas to California. I think three tubes bundled in bubbles should collect dust very nicely under my bed in these boxes.

My questions on the glycol still remain unanswered. Does anyone know of anything I should do or worry about concerning the glycol while its in storage? Thanks....ray

[Gamby]

[Gamby]

[kschmit2]

Here's a look at NEC's original packaging: