Transporting Vinyl Records

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.

Transporting vinyl records.

Cardboard boxes for storing transporting vinyl. Pack these along the sides of your lp s up to the top. Put the empty original inner back in the outer sleeve. They seem a little expensive i know but i really trust them.

Double check you have any stickers posters etc in the sleeve. Use the right boxes. 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. 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.

Put 20 22 records on top of the center where the two pieces of bubble wrap cross. Stand them vertically next to each other. Keep the vinyl outside the outer cover. 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.

The large outside. I ve never seen boxes that fit records so perfectly for a lower price. The albums fit perfectly says ulrey. If your move is being subsidized by an employer by all means use the moving company boxes supplies but pack the records yourself.

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 your socks underware etc on top. 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.

Both moves spanned the vinyl unfriendly months of july august. The smaller boxes held about ten records each and we got a lot of these from local record stores. Pack some newspaper or bubble wrap in the space left in the box this will give your records some shock absorption during the ride. Cross two pieces of bubble wrap that are as wide as the records and three and a half times as long.

You can put anywhere from 80 to 100 albums in one standard small moving box. Shipping vinyl records through the mail sounds like a harrowing experience. 2 fold the bubble wrap over the records and secure with tape. Don t stack your vinyl on top of one another when putting them in a box.

I packed each box pretty full and taped the lids down but left the handles open. 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.