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TheVerge
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 11:46 pm Post subject: Shipping lenses |
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I have covers on one side, is bubble wrap ok for the other? Will it scratch the glass.
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Nashou66
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Tom.W
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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NO! Buy some heavy duty cardboard bowls of the best size and place them on the end without the caps. You can use cellophane to wrap around the lenses to hold the bowls in place. I also place a few strips of tape over the caps because sometimes they shatter in shipping.
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Nashou66
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CIR Engineering
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Never let anything touch the optical surfaces. Bubble wrap or anything else will scratch the coatings. Bowls are the best thing to use.
craigr
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wallace123456
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Geez. I guess the lens I shipped analogrocks a few years ago didn't fit any of the "safe shipping methods" mentioned above. 
He said his secretary told him they were all but out of the box when they delivered them.
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AnalogRocks
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| wallace123456 wrote: | Geez. I guess the lens I shipped analogrocks a few years ago didn't fit any of the "safe shipping methods" mentioned above.
He said his secretary told him they were all but out of the box when they delivered them.
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LOL you used a roll of tape on the top of the box. One stretched out piece on the bottom 
Don't forget a box has more than one side.
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Tom.W
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TheVerge
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Blarg, so much work. Wish i could just give them away, hate trashing the stuff. But if i sell them on ebay for 50 bucks, shipping will be 40. If UPS or USPS breaks them in shipping i'm basically screwing myself out of money, i just don't know if it's worth it.
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Tom.W
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| TheVerge wrote: | | Blarg, so much work. Wish i could just give them away, hate trashing the stuff. But if i sell them on ebay for 50 bucks, shipping will be 40. If UPS or USPS breaks them in shipping i'm basically screwing myself out of money, i just don't know if it's worth it. |
What model lenses are we talking about ?
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CIR Engineering
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| TheVerge wrote: | | Blarg, so much work. Wish i could just give them away, hate trashing the stuff. But if i sell them on ebay for 50 bucks, shipping will be 40. If UPS or USPS breaks them in shipping i'm basically screwing myself out of money, i just don't know if it's worth it. |
For that it is not. Sometimes you just gotta cut your losses, at least that's what I do. I've thrown piles of good parts including lenses into the trash. It just isn't always worth the time or hassel.
craigr
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