Transporting Vinyl Records

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Transporting vinyl records.

Cardboard boxes for storing transporting vinyl. 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. Use the right boxes. They seem a little expensive i know but i really trust them.

I packed each box pretty full and taped the lids down but left the handles open. Put the empty original inner back in the outer sleeve. I ve never seen boxes that fit records so perfectly for a lower price. Move your record in and out of a paper inner and over the years it will act like a fine grain piece of sandpaper adding surface noise to your record.

Pack these along the sides of your lp s up to the top. Cross two pieces of bubble wrap that are as wide as the records and three and a half times as long. The large outside. The albums fit perfectly says ulrey.

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. Let s get to the point. Double check you have any stickers posters etc in the sleeve. Keep the vinyl outside the outer cover.

You can put anywhere from 80 to 100 albums in one standard small moving box. Both moves spanned the vinyl unfriendly months of july august. 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. I pack the albums snugly but not so tight as to damage the sleeves.

The smaller boxes held about ten records each and we got a lot of these from local record stores. Put your socks underware etc on top. 2 fold the bubble wrap over the records and secure with tape. 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. If your move is being subsidized by an employer by all means use the moving company boxes supplies but pack the records yourself. They re sturdy stackable and relatively easy to carry. Pack some newspaper or bubble wrap in the space left in the box this will give your records some shock absorption during the ride.

Don t stack your vinyl on top of one another when putting them in a box. 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. Stand them vertically next to each other.