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In Reply to: Shipping Vinyl in a Moving Truck... From Phoenix, AZ to Portland, OR posted by thegoodtimesarekillingme on August 5, 2005 at 09:40:44:
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
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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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