Shipping Lacquers

[humongous]

What is the protocol for shipping master lacquers to pressing plants? What companies do you use? What do you do about the heat in the summer when you need to ship a lacquer? How do you box up your lacquer masters for shipping? What about insurance?

[subkontrabob]

check out this thread, the first photograph shows an aluminium box used to store and ship pyral masters.

https://lathetrolls.com/viewtopic.php?t=1826&highlight=&mforum=lathetrolls


Maybe you can get a local metal workshop to make something like it?

[mossboss]

Simple mate
Get a box ex Apollo lacquers Drill a hole and put a bolt through the bottom
The hole is 9/32" so next size down
Lock it in place with a nut with a big flat washer both sides of the cardboard Use one very thick or a few fibre washers on the inside so as to raise the floor
Place your cut your firts lacquer there Place a few more fibre washers on the bolt so as to separate them
Face up on the bottom lacquer Face down on the top
Another few fibre washers on top a steel flat washer another nut screw them down tight
Lock the nut with anothe nut
Place the lid on top sticky tape it up Done
A bit of styrofoam on the outsdie if you are really fussy or extreme temps are to be dealt with
Good for travel over a 24-48 hour period
If extreme high temperatures are forecast than a few bags of dry ice around the voids of the standard Apollo insert will keep them nice and cold
Fragile stickers keep on top and such crap essential
Never had a problem done that way
If the box is crushed by the courier to bad
Cheers

[humongous]

Thanks mossboss. This is pretty much what we've been doing. I love the dry ice tip.

[krystoph]

Simple mate
Get a box ex Apollo lacquers

I hope it's okay to restart an old thread, but in regard to the above:

I'm new to shipping lacquers. Apollo is selling their 14" boxes at $12 EACH, which is a bit tough to swallow. I know my clients are cost sensitive enough to not want another $12 for a box on top of overnight shipping, etc. etc. I'm not cutting enough yet to have an abundance of 14" boxes laying around without buying some.

What are some other methods people are using to ship their masters? Is there another source of similar boxes?

[opcode66]

ULine sells 16" boxes that work great. You just need to pack with some bubble wrap around the edges. It is a pizza box style white box.

[krystoph]

http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-15213/Literature-Mailers/16-x-16-x-2-White-Literature-Mailers

This looks like the item. Thanks a bunch. $1.55 sure beats $12.00. Plus I was using bubble wrap in the Apollo boxes anyway.

[krystoph]

Actually I think I like this with the tabs better: http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-7870/Literature-Mailers/16-x-16-x-2-3-4-White-Tab-Locking-Literature-Mailers

[opcode66]

I use the ones with the tabs. The second one you posted. I bought a lot of 90 off someone on eBay for cheaper than they would've been directly from uline. As Mossy posted you want to bolt them together. I use 1/4" bolts, nuts and washers. But, I use the plaster spacers from Apollo on the disc itself so no metal touches the lacquer. I also save the purple bumpers and put those around the edges of the disks.

[krystoph]

Excellent, I'll have to keep my eye on ebay too.

I was talking to Paul Gold a while back and he told me about the bolts, plastic washers and reusing the purple bumpers too.

(all these little details you pick up that have nothing to do with the actual cutting, they're fun to learn)

[audadvnc]

I was all set to go to U-Line for some of those 16x16 shippers until I saw the minimum order of 50. I think that would last me for years.

I found a restaurant supply company that sells smaller quantities:
http://www.webstaurantstore.com/16-x-16-x-1-3-4-corrugated-plain-pizza-bakery-box-50-case/245CB16%20%20%20%20%20WHITE.html

[audadvnc]

Went with U-Line: the pizza box guys had hidden shipping costs that drove the price up. I drove over to Hudson Wisconsin and picked up a stack of 50.

[THD]

This Protape company in London sells professional shipping boxes for 14" lacquer. I just bought 4 boxes for £2.29 (ca $3.90) each, and I am very happy with them. These boxes also have a screw holder to keep the records in place while shipping.


http://www.protape.co.uk/products/cutting-houses.html

[petermontg]

Awesome, thanks for the heads up!