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JWW
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 12/12/05
Posts: 1107
Loc: Arizona or Mexico hard to tell
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My 16 inch came from Alabama to Arizona. Not a deal killer for me. Just depends on what you want and how bad you want it. <grin>
-JWW:
PS: Great job packing Albert, most haven't a clue how to pack, then complain when something is broken. <duh>
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Mark Lancaster
member
Reged: 08/10/05
Posts: 42
Loc: Hayden, AL
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Albert,
One of the best crating jobs I have seen. Good work!
Mark
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droid
rocketman
Reged: 08/29/04
Posts: 4041
Loc: ohio
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My 16 inch came from Alabama to Arizona. Not a deal killer for me. Just depends on what you want and how bad you want it. <grin>
-JWW:
PS: Great job packing Albert, most haven't a clue how to pack, then complain when something is broken. <duh>
not to mention how much money you got to throw at it...lol.
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12 inch Truss Reflector "John"
102mm Celestron C102HD
Tasco 7TE5 60mm Classic
Tasco 9TE5 60mm Classic
Celestron Ultima 2000 SCT
Remains of an 8 inch dob
Celestron Comet catcher(orange tube)
1960 Edscorp Space Conquerer 6inch f/8
10x50 Bushnell Binoculars.
11T 4.5 inch Tasco reflector Lunograsso?
60mm Telescope Club
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albert1
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Reged: 01/01/07
Posts: 1370
Loc: Northern New Jersey
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I've just been informed the crates arrived exactly as they appear in my driveway. Having never shipped a 12.5 Cave before, I must admit my crates may have been a little overkill. Just the crates weighed almost 400 lbs. but I just wouldn't have felt comfortable with anything less sturdy.
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Albert
1 Great 'ole Newt
4 Good 'ole Newts
2 Great 'ole Cats
1 Lousy 'ole Newt
One of these days I'll try a Refractor better than my 90mm finderscope
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albert1
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 01/01/07
Posts: 1370
Loc: Northern New Jersey
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Thanks for the kudos fellas.
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Albert
1 Great 'ole Newt
4 Good 'ole Newts
2 Great 'ole Cats
1 Lousy 'ole Newt
One of these days I'll try a Refractor better than my 90mm finderscope
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tim53
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Reged: 12/17/04
Posts: 1458
Loc: Highland Park, CA
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Depending on the shipping company, that might not have been overpacked! 
I've received packages from a well-known, but to be unnamed here, company that have been essentially destroyed in shipping.
When I worked at Meade 30 years ago, we'd occasionally get scopes returned due to shipping damage. The funniest (to us, probably not the buyer) was an 826 with a perfectly-beautiful rectangular hole in the middle of the box, through both sides of the tube, and out the other side of the box. Somebody skewered it with a fork lift! We assembled a completely new OTA and shipped it out at no cost to the buyer.
-Tim.
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"We`re just waiting looking skyward as the days come down.
Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
-Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, "The Romance of the Telescope"
Edited by tim53 (10/07/09 08:18 PM)
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clintwhitman
Caveman
Reged: 01/01/07
Posts: 2432
Loc: ValVerde CA(SoEasyaCavemanCanD...
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I sent a 10" F6 Cave in 5 Cardboard Doubled boxes to Boston from LA to my friend Rich. $300 DL whatever. It arived Perfect.... LUCKY Your shipping method looked like it was going over seas!! I sent another 12.5 cave to a friend in idaho via another long haul trucker friend and didnt even take the scope apart $75 rolled it on in Van Nuys and my friend rolled it off in Boise. It was still colimated!! That was the best way so far, no work!
(aveman
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Clint&Debbie Whitman (aveman
1960s 6"F15 Jaegers-Unipons by John Pons on a Byers 812, 1947 4" F15 TINSLEY, 1965 10" F8 CAVE, 1950 5CM & 6.5CM Nippon Kogakus (the twins), 1960s UNITRONS a 152 restored a 160 numbered green lens original mint a 114 original 50s mint, 1950s UNITRON M100 100mm F15 OTA, WO 80mm Florite, ASTROPHYSICS 155 EDFS on LOSMANDY G11, a bunch of Tascos,Sears Mayflowers The list goes on Add infinitum.
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mustgobigger
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 06/12/07
Posts: 2421
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great job albert,
if i ever sell mine its pickup only.
or clints method.
Brian
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RV-6
Meade 826
Meade 880 Deluxe
Unitron's 114,128,140,142,150,152,155,160
4" Jaegertron
4.5" A.E f/14 Refractor
4" f/15 Edmund's Refractor
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albert1
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 01/01/07
Posts: 1370
Loc: Northern New Jersey
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I sent a 10" F6 Cave in 5 Cardboard Doubled boxes to Boston from LA to my friend Rich. $300 DL whatever. It arived Perfect.... LUCKY Your shipping method looked like it was going over seas!! I sent another 12.5 cave to a friend in idaho via another long haul trucker friend and didnt even take the scope apart $75 rolled it on in Van Nuys and my friend rolled it off in Boise. It was still colimated!! That was the best way so far, no work!
(aveman
That all sounds sweeeeet Clint. Before I did anything I called around and noone would insure it unless it was well packed. Let me re-phrase that. Noone would actually pay on a claim unless it was packed in crates well enough to sustain a direct mortar assault.
I would have delivered it myself but I wasn't sure my van would handle a 3600 mile trip.
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It was still collimated!!
Edited by albert1 (10/08/09 08:14 AM)
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Timber
sage
Reged: 11/08/08
Posts: 394
Loc: SW foothills of Mt. St. Helens
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Wonderful job Albert,
I just bought a 12.5" and will drive 3500 miles, one way, to pick it up.
Richard
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My four beautiful Saluki's; Barron, Sophie, Majnun and Kassandra, and I live on a small, rural, remote farm.
No close neighbors,
No streetlights,
No private security lights,
No power poles,
No traffic,
No TV,
No HOA 
No Mosquitoes
Rather Wonderful
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TimD
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 02/16/05
Posts: 905
Loc: CA USA
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Fantastic Ablert! I don't have the patience to do that but it should pay off in helping the scope survive in the same shape as it currently is.
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Takahashi TSC 225
WO Megrez 102
Meade ETX 90, ETX 125
Meade LX90
Classic Orange tube C14, C90, C5+
Etc,Etc,Etc!!
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