Transporting Vinyl Records

Cardboard boxes for storing transporting vinyl.

Transporting vinyl records.

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. The albums fit perfectly says ulrey. Keep the vinyl outside the outer cover. 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. I pack the albums snugly but not so tight as to damage the sleeves. Stand them vertically next to each other. Cross two pieces of bubble wrap that are as wide as the records and three and a half times as long.

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. Double check you have any stickers posters etc in the sleeve. Put your socks underware etc on top. 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.

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. They re sturdy stackable and relatively easy to carry. Let s get to the point. Recommended inners arrive in two flavours either as a delicate plastic liner within a paper inner or as a round bottomed plastic only variant.

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. Both moves spanned the vinyl unfriendly months of july august. 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. 2 fold the bubble wrap over the records and secure with tape.

The smaller boxes held about ten records each and we got a lot of these from local record stores. The large outside. Put 20 22 records on top of the center where the two pieces of bubble wrap cross. I ve never seen boxes that fit records so perfectly for a lower price.

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. If your move is being subsidized by an employer by all means use the moving company boxes supplies but pack the records yourself. Use the right boxes. You can put anywhere from 80 to 100 albums in one standard small moving 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. Put the empty original inner back in the outer sleeve. Shipping vinyl records through the mail sounds like a harrowing experience.