Question about a monitor

[toadley_stoned]

I just finished gutting an 8 Liner machine.  It had a fairly new 20" Monitor in it, and I was going to go to eBay with it.  Just curious what would be the best precautions to take on shipping it?  I'd hate for someone to get injured during transit.  Any advice anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated. 

Another quick question... it's a 20" Vision Pro (I think is the name), with a chassis, it came from a Video Redemption Cherry Master, would it be a fair trade for an X-Arcade Dual Control Board?

[qrz]

just put in a disclamer that u hold no resposibility for improper handling or use ,  i.e. "AS IS "

and be generous on packing material. 

once got a dud crt back from "OOPS"  (united parcel service)
i hope the idiot that dropped it had to change their underware 
judging from the debris, it likely made a rather LOUD boom ......

qrz

[Level42]

THE trick in packaging mostly anything delicate is that you need to prevent any pressure that could be applied to the outside will not be transfered to the inside.

Lot's of people drop something in a box, fill it up with newspapers or chips and think they're done. Now if they stack a load of boxes on top or yours during transport, or they throw it around (which they will both do) the only thing the papers/chips will do is transfer the pressure onto the packaged item. And so it breaks.

Usualy, CRT monitors were packaged with two big styrofoam sides on the left and right of the monitor, exactly filling the box. The monitor itself "floated" in the styrofoam parts, no part of the monitor was touching any "walls" of the box. I' talking cased PC monitors here, but the method is universal.

Another good example: I bought a nice neon sign. Produced in the far east. The way they packeged was the box-in-box method. The neon itself supported by foam in the first box on the top and bottom part. This box was "floating" in the 2nd, using foam cornerblocks on each corner. There was no other filling material. If they would have filled it, any pressure would be transfered to the smaller box/neon.

It' pretty hard to do a perfect packaging without custom molded styrofoam etc. but this should give you an idea of what can give you the best chance of getting it across safely.

BTW, you should put it in the "for sale" section here before e-baying it......we're all helping eachother here right