Extreme amounts of packaging materials. bubble wrap, foam corners, all kinds of stuff.Double wall boxes, etc. usually about 1-2 hours to be packed by an experienced amplifier shipper.
the ups guys LOVE to drop this stuff, to drop it hard, on cement. They get their jollies out of it, it seems.
What I pack, CAN be dropped down a set of stairs. Repeatedly.
If it can’t be........then it is not packed well enough.
an amp like that, would have taken at least one $20 roll of bubble wrap, all on it’s own, and the foam corners (possibly hand made ones, cut and glued from wall foam) , and the double wall box and then some extra supports and so on.
Box glued shut with a large high powered glue gun, Extra wide quality packing tape on top of that.....and...the entire box covered in the extra wide tape, especially along the box seam....and so on. Corners re-enforced by strategic application of the extra wide packing tape (from three directions , on each corner), and more.
$100 effort, here, minimum....to save a ~$5k amp from the ravages of the shipping assXXXXs. As they will kill it, if given the opportunity...every time.
the ups guys LOVE to drop this stuff, to drop it hard, on cement. They get their jollies out of it, it seems.
What I pack, CAN be dropped down a set of stairs. Repeatedly.
If it can’t be........then it is not packed well enough.
an amp like that, would have taken at least one $20 roll of bubble wrap, all on it’s own, and the foam corners (possibly hand made ones, cut and glued from wall foam) , and the double wall box and then some extra supports and so on.
Box glued shut with a large high powered glue gun, Extra wide quality packing tape on top of that.....and...the entire box covered in the extra wide tape, especially along the box seam....and so on. Corners re-enforced by strategic application of the extra wide packing tape (from three directions , on each corner), and more.
$100 effort, here, minimum....to save a ~$5k amp from the ravages of the shipping assXXXXs. As they will kill it, if given the opportunity...every time.