Transporting Vinyl Records

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Transporting vinyl records.

Pack these along the sides of your lp s up to the top. Use the right boxes. Shipping vinyl records through the mail sounds like a harrowing experience. The albums fit perfectly says ulrey.

The perfect sized box for moving lps is u haul s small which is 1 5 cubic feet says keith ulrey owner of microgroove in tampa. With increasing pressure on delivery companies and couriers alike to pile more packages into each van per trip it s no surprise that vinyl packaging issues are a hot topic on the net. They seem a little expensive i know but i really trust them. Fold your shirts in half and roll them into cylinders.

If your move is being subsidized by an employer by all means use the moving company boxes supplies but pack the records yourself. If the record is housed in a printed inner place the record in a separate clean inner sleeve an antistatic nagaoka type one if you re feeling kind. Recommended inners arrive in two flavours either as a delicate plastic liner within a paper inner or as a round bottomed plastic only variant. Let s get to the point.

You can put anywhere from 80 to 100 albums in one standard small moving box. I ve never seen boxes that fit records so perfectly for a lower price. Don t stack your vinyl on top of one another when putting them in a box. Cross two pieces of bubble wrap that are as wide as the records and three and a half times as long.

I pack the albums snugly but not so tight as to damage the sleeves. Double check you have any stickers posters etc in the sleeve. Keep the vinyl outside the outer cover. We packed up about that many records all the lp s 12 s up went in big 13 x13 boxes with 4 5 smaller boxes inside each larger box.

I use the paper or bubble wrap on the side of the box such that the records can t slide from one side to the other. The large outside. Put 20 22 records on top of the center where the two pieces of bubble wrap cross. The smaller boxes held about ten records each and we got a lot of these from local record stores.

Stand them vertically next to each other. I packed each box pretty full and taped the lids down but left the handles open. Pack some newspaper or bubble wrap in the space left in the box this will give your records some shock absorption during the ride. Cardboard boxes for storing transporting vinyl.

I usually wrap 45 s up in a t shirt and add keep them in my backpack with any other lp s i can t fit in the roller case. 2 fold the bubble wrap over the records and secure with tape. They re sturdy stackable and relatively easy to carry.