Transporting Vinyl Records

Let s get to the point.

Transporting vinyl records.

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. Stand them vertically next to each other. The smaller boxes held about ten records each and we got a lot of these from local record stores. 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.

Cross two pieces of bubble wrap that are as wide as the records and three and a half times as long. Pack these along the sides of your lp s up to the top. I pack the albums snugly but not so tight as to damage the sleeves. Both moves spanned the vinyl unfriendly months of july august.

Double check you have any stickers posters etc in the sleeve. 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. 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.

I packed each box pretty full and taped the lids down but left the handles open. 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. Put your socks underware etc on top. Shipping vinyl records through the mail sounds like a harrowing experience.

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. Cardboard boxes for storing transporting vinyl. Recommended inners arrive in two flavours either as a delicate plastic liner within a paper inner or as a round bottomed plastic only variant. Put the empty original inner back in the outer sleeve.

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. They seem a little expensive i know but i really trust them. Fold your shirts in half and roll them into cylinders. The large outside.

Use the right boxes. They re sturdy stackable and relatively easy to carry. 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. 2 fold the bubble wrap over the records and secure with tape.

If your move is being subsidized by an employer by all means use the moving company boxes supplies but pack the records yourself. The albums fit perfectly says ulrey. I ve never seen boxes that fit records so perfectly for a lower price.