Shipping a large glass sheet...how to pack it safely ?

[Level42]

Have people shipped a large glass sheet (something like the glass "bezel" cover of a Galaxian ) and manage to get it to the adressed person in 1 piece ?

Any packaging suggestions would be great.

[RandyT]

Have people shipped a large glass sheet (something like the glass "bezel" cover of a Galaxian ) and manage to get it to the adressed person in 1 piece ?

Any packaging suggestions would be great.

Seriously, you don't want to know.....

But I'll tell you anyway.    Glass is much much stronger standing on it's edge than resting on it's face.  For that reason, glass is pretty much always packed in a thin wooden crate with stryofoam all the way around, particularly on the bottom edge.  It is then braced vertically on a pallet so it stays in that orientation.

If you are sending it by UPS, you might as well smash it yourself and save the trouble.

RandyT

[spiffykyle]

I had a 48" x 18" x 3/16" mirror shipped to me from a glass company. They shipped it USPS and it got here fine. Basically it was sandwiched between two 1.5" sheets of heavy styrofoam. Then they framed the whole thing in more 1.5" heavy styrofoam. They then encased it in cardboard and taped the whole thing up. Then they put it in a box full of packing peanuts.

Got here just fine even though the outer box looked a little worse for wear.

[RandyT]

I had a 48" x 18" x 3/16" mirror shipped to me from a glass company. They shipped it USPS and it got here fine. Basically it was sandwiched between two 1.5" sheets of heavy styrofoam. Then they framed the whole thing in more 1.5" heavy styrofoam. They then encased it in cardboard and taped the whole thing up. Then they put it in a box full of packing peanuts.

Got here just fine even though the outer box looked a little worse for wear.

So the answer is:   "Too much might be just enough" 

RandyT

[Level42]

Yeah, I was thinking about a frame around the complete sheet (light-wood ?) covering it on both sides with styrofoam and putting something like triplex sheets over the frame on both sides. The biggest issue is indeed pressure on top of the "box" so it must be so that any pressure would not harm it. AND it should be able to handle some throwing about.

However, I'm not sending this......I want to receive it

From Texas to The Netherlands..... I bet it's going to cost me.....and this is something there are not may off around....

Anybody got Galaxian Bezel art in digital format ? It's so strange, side-art, kick-panel, CP, everything is there but NOT the bezel.....guess what's missing on my "brand new"  Galaxian ?