How to pack a Eimac!

RE: How to pack a Eimac!, posted on November 24, 2014 at 07:07:28
geoff Audiophile Posts: 3499 Joined: April 5, 2000 Contributor Since: September 10, 2003	looks like a high school physics project where you have to design protective packging to drop an egg off the roof.

RE: How to pack a Eimac!, posted on December 2, 2014 at 14:34:57
Ed Sawyer Audiophile Posts: 2595 Joined: November 3, 2000	I have several like this, that are packed the same way. That frame goes inside a cardboard box. They survived pretty well that way. And yes, they were definitely expensive. The main buyers were military and commercial users.

RE: How to pack a Eimac!, posted on December 2, 2014 at 19:39:18

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Yes, common back then.

Some tube boxes have a tell tail that indicates if the tube box was not kept upright. The tell tail is a clear plastic arrow shaped device pointing up on the outside of the box. The bottom part of the arrow has loose tiny plastic balls inside. The top part of the arrow has a sticky pad inside. Tip the box on its side or upside down and the top of the clear plastic arrow will have the tiny balls stuck in place.

RE: How to pack a Eimac!, posted on December 4, 2014 at 12:05:16
Sherwood Forest Audiophile Posts: 240 Joined: October 7, 2014	Still quite common with expensive transmitting tubes. I wish I had pics of the way e2v packed ESCIOTS for the Acrodyne transmitter I helped install at WTXL. The old Acrodyne we replaced used tubes that were also shipped with a cage inside a cage, springs at all the corners. A buddy of mine saved on of them because it was just too cool.

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How to pack a Eimac!

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