[78-L] It's Tight Like That - packing lessons from R Buckminster Fuller

[David Lennick]

Okay..here's the trick regarding warped records IF they're all from the same 
source (if not, put 'em in a small box with bubble wrap sheets between them and 
then pack that box in something else). Take all the discs out, stack them so 
that they fit like bowls (don't try and resequence or flip any of them), and 
put three marks across the edges with a grease pencil..two of them close 
together, the other an inch away. You will then be able to reinsert them in the 
album and always have them fit as they've been for the last 60 years or so. 
Flattening them later is possible, and a vegetable steamer seems to work.

dl

Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Warped records fit into this discussion.  Mike's story of the flat but crushed records described below makes the case for some kind of soft packing between the records that will allow some "give" without the sandwich being loose enough for the stuff to slide.  It can be done, but takes a little practice, or just being careful and pay attention to what you're doing.  I shipped some warped records in an album home from a trip once and had to be creative on the spot.  A few sheets of paper towel between the records in the album sleeves, a plastic shipping bag around the records but inside the album, 2 more bags over the whole album with packing tape to hold it together inside a box with a little of every kind of packing I could scrape up and they got here OK.
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> I know, it was a good line, Mike, but the tractor parts package was for a local farmer in his 90's who has gone back to farming when his retirement from some big outfit that he worked for 50 years dried up and blew away.  He's trying to keep from losing the farm by working it himself again.  78 Content: "We Won't Have to Sell the Farm" by Ben Bernie and the Lads on blue wax Columbia.
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> Has anyone tried recording directly on the uncoated pizza?
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> Rodger
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> For Best Results use Mozzarella.
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> --- On Sat, 2/21/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
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> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] It's Tight Like That - packing lessons from R Buckminster Fuller
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 11:16 PM
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> David Lennick wrote:
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>>> that stretch wrap like Saran that you can get at any office supply store now
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>> Note..this stuff
>> is strong enough that movers will wrap it around a dresser (a few times) and 
>> the drawers won't slide out during the move. It comes in six-inch and 
>> twelve-inch widths. But I have no idea how long it will keep a pizza fresh.
>>
>> dl
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> You use tinfoil for pizza.  But you can't record on it after it has been 
> used to wrap pizza.
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>> Rodger Holtin wrote:
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>>> I work for one of the college bookstores.  Actually, it's an auxiliary enterprise as most of our business is generated by long-distance phone or internet, not textbooks. . . . This week alone I've shipped 400 packages including countless books, several CDs, a wheel chair, a video projector, tractor transmission parts, motorcycle seats and a teddy bear.  
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> That explains the quality of today's college students.  They're studying 
> tractor transmission parts instead of textbooks. 
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>>> Same goes for the outside box - and this is the point for packing records.  Be SURE the box is FULL of packing to the point that it is almost hard to close.  If it's not, the box is sure to collapse the first time it gets something stacked on top of it.  You want all six sides of that box to be tight.  This is the tension that creates the integrity of the package. 
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> I had a situation where a box I packed tightly with about an inch of 
> cardboard above and below the record pack had three of the ten records 
> CRUSHED.  (No, the records weren't warped.) There was too much tension 
> on the stack when apparently further compressed with weight of other 
> things on top of the box.  There needed to be a soft layer at the top or 
> bottom, not just cardboard. A thin layer of the hated peanuts would have 
> helped.
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
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