[QuadList] Help get a VR-1000B to NAB --Update--Mike Boland donates $1000

Thu Mar 10 12:44:04 CST 2016

Electronic  movers  know  what  to do...
the  though of even using common carrier  
makes  me  cringe......

My company  shipped    huge delicate mainframes all  over... we never  
crated anything... and  we  would NEVER   consider common carrier as a answer to 
transport  for high value  electronics  goods.

Also I have heard  no   mention of   insurance...    Electronic  padded  
freight is   easy to insure...  common  carrier  as  easy  for hi  val  
stuff...

and  remember if a semi trailer  goes off  the  bridge
the crate  does not help.

and   I  never  get an answer as  to how many of  these are  left...

Ed#

In a message dated 3/10/2016 8:25:17 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016  10:24:04 -0500
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Help get a VR-1000B to NAB  --Update--Mike Boland
donates $1000
From: Dave Sieg  <dave at zfx.com>
To: Quad List  <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>

FWIW:

I have found that crating, especially older heavier tube  gear, can end up 
subjecting it to more big shocks

that the crate  doesn't necessarily insulate it from.  In fact it makes it  
worse!
Forklift guys tend to see it as a big heavy cube they can slam  around all 
they want.  
Its crated/protected, right?  In one  event, a heavy crate was dropped 
about a foot,

hitting one  corner first, thus skewing and practically ruining the entire  
contents.

How you crate something like that is an artform unto itself!

When SIGGRAPH paid to ship one of the Scanimate computers to  the Orlando 
Convention Center, I called 
United Data Movers.  They  specialize in big expensive delicate equipment.

I had separated the individual racks, and it was made easier by the fact  
that each rack had 4 casters.

They did a great job of wrapping and carefully moving them there and back  
for a surprisingly low fee.

As a testament to their care, and the fact that the system was built like  
a brick outhouse, I arrived, 

re-plugged all the cables, powered it up, and it worked the first  time!  
They don't make 'em like that anymore!

Best of luck!  It would be great to see a VR-1000 humming  along!

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Ted Langdell via  QuadList 
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Date: Thu,  10 Mar 2016 06:57:57 -0800
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Help get a  VR-1000B to NAB --Update--Mike Boland 
donates $1000

As I noted earlier:

All of this equipment should be crated in order to protect the  gear, and 
to allow for easier handling during shipment and when it arrives  at the 
convention center in Las Vegas.  There's a cost to create the  crates and get 
the equipment in them. But it makes safely moving stuff  like this possible on 
a routine basis. 

There's a significant difference in how much  Per hundred weight – 100 
pounds – it costs to move equipment that's crated  and can be moved with a 
forklift compared to equipment that is simply  "blanket wrapped" or is "lose."

>From the material handling form:

Show site shipment  under 5000 pounds: 
Crated or skidded:  $56.75 /  hundredweight 
Uncreated or pad  wrapped    $80.25 /  hundredweight 

Estimated weight of transport/overbridge and two racks, crated at apx.  
3500 pounds, total. 

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary, Quad Videotape Group
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_(530)301-2931_ (tel:(530)301-2931) 

Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely  responsible for any 
weird stuff I didn't catch.

On Mar 9, 2016, at 10:13 PM, Tim Stoffel <_tim at lionlamb.us_ 
(mailto:tim at lionlamb.us) > wrote:

I shipped my machines blanket-wrapped, but strapped into the  sides of
the truck. Nothing was damaged in transit, not  even a little bit.

Tim  Stoffel

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