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  • 10-04-2019 4:17pm
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    alanmc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I'm sending my Nightforce in for a refurb. Any advice on how to package up my scope for postink to Gowen and Bradshaw? Would a shoebox and lots of scrunched up brown paper be sufficient?

    Thanks,
    Alan.


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    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Bubblewrap is your friend.


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    freddieot
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    A shoebox is not strong enough.


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    alanmc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭alanmc


    freddieot wrote: »
    A shoebox is not strong enough.

    I have my Vortex Viper scope box. I'll probably use that. I think the corrugated cardboard shoeboxes are sufficient though.


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    freddieot
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭freddieot


    I've worked in the delivery industry for 39 years - a shoebox is not strong enough. However, you could be lucky, many people are.


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    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Remember what the packaging was like when you bought it? Anything less is going to be a risk, especially given FED-UPS proclivity for seeing just how high packages can bounce,


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    zeissman
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    I sent my Leica RF binoculars away to Portugal recently to be serviced.
    I put them in their original box and wrapped the box in bubble wrap then put them into another cardboard box.


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    alanmc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭alanmc


    tac foley wrote: »
    Remember what the packaging was like when you bought it? Anything less is going to be a risk, especially given FED-UPS proclivity for seeing just how high packages can bounce,

    Unfortunately, I got it out of an RFDs drawer without any box. I'll bubble wrap the crap out of it though.


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