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Gang,I think I have read something about this issue before (see title) but I’m curious, am I playing with the devil by moving say, 3 crates of vinyl in a moving truck from Phoenix to Oregon… in August?
I have a friend who would essentially give me all of his vinyl, but the problem is, I have to move it and since I’m already renting a giant U-Haul to move large pieces of furniture, I suppose the vinyl would also be houses in the U-Haul truck.
As you may or may not know, Phoenix is at its ‘best’ in August. It’s the hottest month of the year there and the temperature easily hovers in the 110-115 region, if not hotter. Of course, the vinyl would be in a truck, out of any direct sunlight but that’s not saying it wouldn’t be like putting them in a giant, moving oven.
Has anyone ever had to move vinyl from an extremely hot climate? If so, how can I minimize warping? Suggestions welcome!
Follow Ups:
My collection of 5000 LP's was moved from CT to SC in July, then back to CT the following July. Then when they arrived in CT I had them stored in a non temperature controlled corrugated metal storage unit for a couple of months. I'm wasn't aware of any problems caused by heat. Then they were moved again from CT to SC two years ago in July. Again I'm not aware of any problems from the move. Maybe I was just lucky? But, maybe the boxes of LP's were so heavy that they were all on the bottom of the moving van toward the floor thereby not exposed to higher temperatures near the roof.
I will be sending the mentioned vinyl to my parents house while the summer months are here. I'm in no hurry to receive it, so instead of risking ruining it, I'll park it there until I can nab it, preferably in the winter months!Thanks again for all your great help!
Get a larger truck than you need and put the boxes with the vinyl in the front, under, say, a mattress and jeep them tightly packed latterally. Do not stack them on top of each other. If you must buy or rent shelving. The vertical weight in that heat means warp city! The extra volume inside the truck keeps overheating down.Finally, if you can, drive at night and shelter the beast during the hot part of the day. Over thirty years ago I learnt the wisdom of moving in the late fall or spring, and vinyl was one of the main reasons.
Frankly, I don't even have vinyl purchases shipped to me in the heat of the summer. Years ago the International Preview Society did that and, as long as the postman left the package out of the sun, all was well. The Society, it would seem, knew what it was doing. Current eBay sellers do not.
Your chances of getting out of this unharmed are about 30%. And that's if you follow the precautions. Especially in a place like Phoenix. If you don't follow the advice and nothing happens to the vinyl I would like to inherit your rabbit's foot!
The truth ain't always pretty, I fear.
Good luck!
We moved on June 8th from Jackson, Wyoming to Spring Branch, Texas just north of San Antonio. I had 400 LPs in Uhaul boxes in the back of the moving van. It was 95+ degrees for the whole second day of the drive down from WY and there were no problems with my LPs.The movers from Wyoming were shocked at the heat when they had to unload the truck though.
Paul Green
I moved vinyl from Florida to New York in the summer once and had nothing but junk by the time I got to NY. This seems like a whole lot of work but if the records were worth it and I had to do it again, I'd find some large styrofoam coolers and use dry ice to keep the temperature down. You don't have to freeze them and you will have to get dry ice along the way and add from time to time but you only need to keep the temperature down to 90 degrees or so, so it shouldn't be that hard to do. Maybe someone knows a better way.
Good luck
Ahhh, good to know. Luckily, my parents live in the area. Maybe the best thing to do would be to simply store the vinyl at their place until the weather cools down enough to nab them somehow. I'd hate to ruin the vinyl just to roll the dice on getting them shipped out, even if they are free. That feels like sacralige! :)
Oh no doubt about it. If you can store the records at your parent's house until the fall or winter do it. With the August sun beating down on a closed, uninsulated box truck, temperatures could top 150 degrees. Remember record flattening is easy, it's the regrooving that's the problem.
I shipped vinyl from Florida to New York and from NY to Texas with no trouble at all. The first was early Sept. and the second in June. I have so many records that I could ship no other way.
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