How not to ship a console overseas!

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Um, bubble ain't enough.  You need a tech.
It took a dive off a forklift.  Luckily there are, well, four more left in the world!
Mike

Mike I just want to cry :'( :'( :'(

What a shame

GARY

You must be kidding me, WTF

What was the shipping company USPS?? You need serious freight with that kind of console, and a dedicated flightcase just for the shipping or wodden box with console fixed in, i mean they guy couldn't spend a little more after a purchase like this?????

thats just horrible
iv'e a good mind to report this post as offensive

bwhahaha! (when you're too terrified and start to laugh in a state of shock)


:'(

WTF  :'(

Wow!

I certainly hope it was insured and whoever dumped it had some idea what they were dealing with.

Shame!

Was it crated at all?

Best,
j

That's horrible!

What console is that, BTW?

Mike

Thereby driving up the price of the remaining EMI desks in the world.  Wow, is that lousy.

That makes me just plain sad.... :'(

"Taken out and shot" comes to mind.....

That's a cryin' shame. Stupid shippers should be .....well they're just plain dumb. So sorry man!

What are the chances of refurbing it?

Are the pcb's intact?

I have my guns ready, just say the word :'(


On the flip side, no time like the present to make some clone boards

Life is an IQ test, and that one doesn't get a make up exam.
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I used to build a wood crate around consoles or else the truckers would tear them up...

JR

hitchhiker said:

That's a cryin' shame. Stupid shippers should be .....well they're just plain dumb. So sorry man!

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Shippers are shippers, expecting them to care for our goods is foolish.  The onus is on the person sending the goods to prepare them for all eventualities..... A friend of mine had over $100,000 worth of damage done by a guy who drove a forklift through flight cases.  Imagine the force it would take to destroy a flight case and rip the front panel from a Bryston amp!  Insanity.  In that case the gear was all packaged and prepared and paletted, nothing more one can do. 

Those pics are sad.

How bad is the damage really? If the frame is bent, then you can either replace, or bend it back into shape. However if the pcb's are damaged then that's a whole other story. maybe making a clone is not a bad investment

Dejavu. I have seen that sort of horror pictures sooo many times.

Part of my business used to be in architectural, engineering and marine modelmaking. In one case we completed a model for a development in Dubai. I adviced the client to spend another £500 so that we could get an aluminium clad flight case to protect the model. This was a model that cost almost £15K by the way. He said it was unnecessary as they would wrap it in cardboard box securely and it would be fine. I literally pleaded with him that it was a suicide. He said no. Ookeyy. You are the boss. Of course as expected when he arrived at Dubai a cardboard box full of plastic bits was handed over to him, what we call like a bag o' soggy chips.

So, I agree with John's comment on IQ and I can categorically tell you that the great majority of handlers can not pass that test. But my trophy would go to the sender of that console.

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OMFG :'(