Transporting Vinyl Records

Stand them vertically next to each other.

Transporting vinyl records.

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. Both moves spanned the vinyl unfriendly months of july august. Let s get to the point.

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. Keep the vinyl outside the outer cover. Shipping vinyl records through the mail sounds like a harrowing experience. 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.

Put 20 22 records on top of the center where the two pieces of bubble wrap cross. I pack the albums snugly but not so tight as to damage the sleeves. Use the right boxes. Don t stack your vinyl on top of one another when putting them in a box.

Pack these along the sides of your lp s up to the top. Fold your shirts in half and roll them into cylinders. Double check you have any stickers posters etc in the sleeve. The large outside.

I ve never seen boxes that fit records so perfectly for a lower price. Recommended inners arrive in two flavours either as a delicate plastic liner within a paper inner or as a round bottomed plastic only variant. Cardboard boxes for storing transporting vinyl. 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.

They re sturdy stackable and relatively easy to carry. I packed each box pretty full and taped the lids down but left the handles open. 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. 2 fold the bubble wrap over the records and secure with tape.

Pack some newspaper or bubble wrap in the space left in the box this will give your records some shock absorption during the ride. The albums fit perfectly says ulrey. 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.

Put the empty original inner back in the outer sleeve. 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. 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.