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Post by nickthefish on Jul 31, 2009 16:38:16 GMT -5
Anyone ever done it? How was it packaged? I assume wrapping it tightly in cardboard would be OK? Any suggestions are more than welcome.
Thanks,
Nick
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Post by dolzinnig on Jul 31, 2009 17:23:54 GMT -5
I've done it. Door windows, etc.
I try to use a box that has a few inches of room on all sides then use crumpled up newspaper or similar to surround it snugly and completely. Mark it fragile and INSURE it.
I'm not sure, but I think if you wrap it in cardboard and someone tosses it into a truck, it's almost bound to break.
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Post by Big Mike on Aug 1, 2009 12:27:42 GMT -5
Anyone ever done it? How was it packaged? I assume wrapping it tightly in cardboard would be OK? Any suggestions are more than welcome. Nick: I have both sent and received glass before. I too have only shipped and received door glass before, never a windshield. I took old boxes and cut them down to first; completely enclose the glass in cardboard wrapped and taped tightly. Then I took some more pieces of cardboard and cut them into long 1-foot wide pieces and then bent them in half over the edges of the glass. I did this all the way around the edges of the glass to double and triple up on the cardboard on the edges. I then put this whole setup inside a box that either had balled up newspaper all the way around or packing peanuts or bubble wrap. It just depends on what I have laying around as I usually keep all old packing materials from shipments I receive. On glass I received the seller/shipper did a similar thing as I did except they wrapped the glass in two or three layers of bubble wrap and then wrapped that in cardboard and shipped it like that and it arrived just fine. Whatever you do, after packing it either way, mark all sides of the package "Do Not Lay Flat" - "Do Not Stack" or "Always on Top" "Fragile Glass", put it absolutely everywhere and make sure the shipper knows it’s glass. Shippers that ship large pieces of glass always make custom crates to ship or move glass. In the truck shop I worked in, we use to get windshields packed in crates both flat and curved windshields came that way. When I moved from Texas to VA the movers had a vendor come to our house to pack and crate up the glass table tops we had at the time. They wrapped the glass in that paper sandwiched with foam with large foam triangles on all the corners and then built a crate around that. Hope that helps, |
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Post by pryboy on Aug 1, 2009 12:37:03 GMT -5
Nick,
I install windshields for a living. We are ship glass all the time. Tempered glass (door glasses, back glasses, etc.) we just put in a cardboard sleeve and mark it as glass. A windshield is different. It is laminated glass so it will break easier. It will need to go in a box that is made for such things as a windshield. I suggest you go to a local auto glass shop and ask them for an old windshield box. We give them away instead of throwing them in a dumpster.
Lance
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Post by nickthefish on Aug 1, 2009 16:09:20 GMT -5
Thanks for all the tips guys. They will come in handy in the near future.
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