How not to ship a console overseas!

[MartyMart]

That's just VERY VERY sad indeed :-(

Can't say more ...

 

[sodderboy]

It is the TG12345 Mk III out of AR studios in Rio.  I think there are only 5 Mk III's.
You can't blame the shipper.  The owner just threw some bubble on it and said send to Anytown USA, after telling the buyer adamantly that he knew how to ship a console.  No techs on either side were consulted.  I would have crated the cassettes and meters separately, with the frame off the stand.
And the damage was not too severe.  The frame is toast, and all those Ernest Turner meters took the hit protecting the modules.  I had to bend some of the module facias.  The resulting reduction in purchase price paid for the refurb, so the desk will be worth more in the end- when I can fill the bridge one Turner at a time.  By the way, I am looking for some of both sizes 702 and 703 if the price is right.

The story has a happy ending, which I will show with another before-during-after set when the after is finished.
Mike

 

[EEMO1]

im speechless looking at the photos.



 

 

[strangeandbouncy]

  Mike, I am glad there is a positive outcome! That was really playing on my mind . . .

 

[mrclunk]

:'(

 

[pucho812]

It is the TG12345 Mk III out of AR studios in Rio.  I think there are only 5 Mk III's.
You can't blame the shipper.  The owner just threw some bubble on it and said send to Anytown USA, after telling the buyer adamantly that he knew how to ship a console.  No techs on either side were consulted.  I would have crated the cassettes and meters separately, with the frame off the stand.
And the damage was not too severe.  The frame is toast, and all those Ernest Turner meters took the hit protecting the modules.  I had to bend some of the module facias.  The resulting reduction in purchase price paid for the refurb, so the desk will be worth more in the end- when I can fill the bridge one Turner at a time.  By the way, I am looking for some of both sizes 702 and 703 if the price is right.

The story has a happy ending, which I will show with another before-during-after set when the after is finished.
Mike

go mike go.

 

[warpie]

During

for f* shake. This is how I wrap my sandwiches every morning....

 

[sodderboy]

That during picture is creepy.  It looks like it is in a morgue or something, right?
A harbinger. . .
Mike

 

[zebra50]

Yeah, that's a creepy place alright - tiled walls and a drain in the middle of the floor!

(Still, you might get a good reverb sound in there!)

 

[emrr]

Yes, the shipping company is absolutely not at fault.  The party who arranged the shipping is guilty of believing that fairies carry this stuff from place to place on feather pillows. 

 

[Jim50hertz]

This is utterly horrible, I did not expect to open this post and see this

I would have crated the cassettes and meters separately, with the frame off the stand.

This is surely common sense! ESPECIALLY with a console of that vintage and rarity.  What the shipper has done is to wrap them as some would carelessly wrap a sandwich in the morning, then wonder why your salami and your tomato has lost contact with your bread on your journey to work, jeez! 

The story has a happy ending, which I will show with another before-during-after set when the after is finished.
Mike

Yay, we can rebuild him!

 

[MagnetoSound]

MORE


MONEY


THAN


SENSE

 

[livingnote]

OWWW.

But glad to hear issa salvageable.

And to think I felt like a dork for badly cushioning my GSSL in the suitcase...

 

[Kid Squid]

HOLY BEEJEEBUS !!!!

That is some serious bad s**t, Mike.

Glad its got a happy ending tho......

Steve

 

[bluesbaz]

The before shot looks more like a morgue than a place to prep a console..... Turns out it was.

 

[pucho812]

when we got those neve Vr's  a few years ago, we had an issue where some of the psu's fell off the pallet due to the idiot with the forklift not knowing where he was going.

 

[QUEEF BAG]

oooohhhhh  FORKLIFTS!

i'm gonna get a forklift, put the prongs at eye level,

and chase that shipper around til i nail him!

that goddamnmotherfuckin'sonofabitchin'bastardyasshole.

ooops  kinda sorry...

 

[mulletchuck]

that desk looks like an airplane flight deck..      the volume faders look like throttle controls lol!!

 

[thermionic]

The rule is: if you put a courier in a position where they can break something, they will.

Break everything into the smallest possible units. Then surround in bubble wrap and put into a box with millions of (annoying) poly chips.

The shipper's a dickhead. He must be really wealthy. Proof that you don't need to be intelligent to make lots of money. In fact, I've often found that the two can be inversely proportionate... What does that say about the capitalist system?

Justin

 

[user 10827]

I am truly shocked...speechless...absolutely stunned at the stupidity...

fingers crossed you can bring her back to life...

Pete