Container Shipping of Laserdiscs

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About a thousand discs will be packed using 14x14x14 boxes with
styrofoam padding to fill out each box. They will be heading to a
Southern hemisphere country in August using a container that will be
carried aboard a ship. What worries should I have about warping, and
just how hot does it get inside these containers? Over the years we
have all heard horror stories about LD's warping in the trunks of cars.
This is an urban legend whose reality I can believe.

 

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Todd Spangler, who used to post here awhile back, once told me he had
laserdiscs warp while driving from the store he purchased them from,
back to his home!
If it's hot enough, even a short trip can cause warpage.

 

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On 26 Apr 2005 19:58:46 -0700, ollie_w_holmes@yahoo.com wrote:

>About a thousand discs will be packed using 14x14x14 boxes with
>styrofoam padding to fill out each box. They will be heading to a
>Southern hemisphere country in August using a container that will be
>carried aboard a ship. What worries should I have about warping, and
>just how hot does it get inside these containers? Over the years we
>have all heard horror stories about LD's warping in the trunks of cars.
>This is an urban legend whose reality I can believe.


Jack, moving ???

 

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ollie_w_holmes@yahoo.com wrote:

> About a thousand discs will be packed using 14x14x14 boxes with
> styrofoam padding to fill out each box. They will be heading to a
> Southern hemisphere country in August using a container that will be
> carried aboard a ship. What worries should I have about warping, and
> just how hot does it get inside these containers? Over the years we
> have all heard horror stories about LD's warping in the trunks of cars.
> This is an urban legend whose reality I can believe.

I doubt you'll have any issues with warping because you'll no doubt have
them stacked horizontally but you may wind up with some discs that will get
cracked or worse depending on how many of these boxes you stack on top of
each other. You stack half a dozen of these boxes on top of each other and I
bet the bottom box unless majorly reinforced will suffer some serious
crushing effects. LD box sets will just split from the pressure even being
at the bottom of a single unstacked box of that size.

I'd recommend putting these boxes if at all possible on top of whatever else
you might be shipping no more than two stacked high with nothing else on top
of them and as secure as possible to avoid them from being jostled when the
container is moved around. I can't emphesize enough the fact you should use
double walled boxes or some similar reinforcing to provide as much
protection for your collection as possible. Best yet, have these boxes metal
"banded" on a pallet or pallets.

Good luck,

T.B.

 

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I'm sure as long as they are packaged well, they should survive the
journey no problem. Yes, I guess heat could be an issue - but if it
makes you feel any better I have shipped countless boxes of discs
(small lots go airmail but big collections come as surfacemail) that I
have bought on ebay from the US > UK and they have always arrived in
fine order, even the ones that were packaged dubiously. I've never had
any problems with warping. Some of the surface shipments have taken up
to three months to reach me - so they have been at sea / sat at docks
for some time and I've never had a problem.

Good luck with your move!

 

[Rick]

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<ollie_w_holmes@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1114570726.035387.190380@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> About a thousand discs will be packed using 14x14x14 boxes with
> styrofoam padding to fill out each box. They will be heading to a
> Southern hemisphere country in August using a container that will be
> carried aboard a ship. What worries should I have about warping, and
> just how hot does it get inside these containers? Over the years we
> have all heard horror stories about LD's warping in the trunks of cars.
> This is an urban legend whose reality I can believe.

My guess would be to store them vertically as there will be an even
distribution of weight on each disc. Horizontally not only risks the extra
weight of each disc above it, but also the heat cannot escape as it builds
up and even a perfectly flat surface will not prevent warping them. Hope
this helps.