Shipping Arcade PCBs?

[melarky]

I have a few arcade PCBs I've been thinking about selling for a while, but I have no idea how I would ship them. Do I have to find large antistatic bags to ship them in? What do you guys do (or what have you guys received) that has worked well?

I have a complete Battlezone boardset (untested), Beast Busters (untested), and will soon have a Hard Drivin' board set (along with other parts) that are tested and working fine.

The Battlezone boardset is pretty large (one board especially), so if I need anti static bags, I would need a pretty large one for that, and I have no idea where to get them.

[MrMojoZ]

The bags that come with full size ATX motherboards would fit alot of arcade boards, they can vary in size among brands. If you have any small computer shops still in your area you could ask them.

*For larger boards cut bags up and tape them back together.

[ChadTower]

I would love to buy a Battlezone board set.

[melarky]

I would love to sell a battlezone boardset   I just need to figure out how to ship it once it's sold.

I used to have a battlezone cabinet, and picked up the extra boardset when I bought the beast buster guns/boardset/marquee (I just wanted the guns for a project, but it came with all of that), but when I sold the battlezone cabinet, the guy didn't want the extra set.  I'll have to take some pics of them and post them here once I figure out how to ship them.  I don't know if they still work and don't really have a way to test them, so I would list them as "untested".

[SavannahLion]

*For larger boards cut bags up and tape them back together.

I've been doing that and it doesn't really work very well. No matter how carefully you fold and tape the bags, there's always a point where something goes awry and the bags don't fit together right. It's the shape of the board. The more parts on the board, the harder it is to create something to wrap it all.

So I was trying to locate some larger anti-static bags, I found out that cutting and taping bags together is definately not what you want to do. Apparently the tape adversely affects the bags effectiveness. Bleh.

Check out eBay, there is a bag seller who sells 18" bags in smaller quantaties for a reasonable price. Talk to him and he can put together a custom auction with specific bag sizes and quantites you need. Unfortunately, you'll eat it on shipping and the cost savings will disappear. But it's better than paying $100 for 50-some bags and trying to resell them.

[melarky]

Alot of people on the klov boards said that bubble wrap is enough (no need to use anti static bags).  They say they just wrap it all over at least twice with bubble wrap and find a box that will fit the board (with at least 2 inches of space on all sides of board) and then fill it up with packing peanuts or paper to make sure it's snug and won't rattle around in shipping.

[lanman31337]

I don't like the idea of packing peanuts one bit coming anywhere close to some PCB's.  They're a plethora of static electricity. 

[rockin_rick]

There are anti-static packing peanuts made for shipping electronics...  usually pink.

Rick

[BrentRadio]

I hate packing peanuts of any kind. They will be the end of our world someday...

Anyway, I have used bubblewrap to ship 50 boards, and have recieved the same amount packed the same way. The main thing is to find a suitable box.

Brent