[78-L] Pack em up and move em out

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Thu Jul 29 19:44:01 PDT 2010


From: "agp" <agp2176 at verizon.net>
> As I may have said before, my wife and I are planning a long distance
> move -- moving vans and all that. So, I need some ideas for prepping
> my small-ish collection 400-500 78s to move.
> I have consider getting plastic storage crates, placing a styrofoam
> cooler in them and placing the 78s with foam around them in the
> coolers. I am unsure if they should be oriented horizontally or 
> vertically.
> What does the assembled multitude think?
>
Vertically...but make sure the crates (milk boxes or other HEAVY
cardboard boxes!) are all COMPLETELY full (you can use cardboard
or wood "spacers" if the final box is not full!). When the records
are allowed to move around within a box, it is guaranteed that
some will wind up broken!

Steven C. Barr 




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