Transporting Vinyl Records

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.

Transporting vinyl records. Fold your shirts in half and roll them into cylinders. Put your socks underware etc on top. Cardboard boxes for storing transporting vinyl. The albums fit perfectly says ulrey.

Both moves spanned the vinyl unfriendly months of july august. They seem a little expensive i know but i really trust them. I ve never seen boxes that fit records so perfectly for a lower price. Pack these along the sides of your lp s up to the top.

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. Double check you have any stickers posters etc in the sleeve. Don t stack your vinyl on top of one another when putting them in a box. The large outside.

I pack the albums snugly but not so tight as to damage the sleeves. 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. Cross two pieces of bubble wrap that are as wide as the records and three and a half times as long. Stand them vertically next to each other.

I packed each box pretty full and taped the lids down but left the handles open. 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. Recommended inners arrive in two flavours either as a delicate plastic liner within a paper inner or as a round bottomed plastic only variant. Put the empty original inner back in the outer sleeve.

2 fold the bubble wrap over the records and secure with tape. Let s get to the point. 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. You can put anywhere from 80 to 100 albums in one standard small moving box.

The smaller boxes held about ten records each and we got a lot of these from local record stores. Use the right boxes. They re sturdy stackable and relatively easy to carry. If your move is being subsidized by an employer by all means use the moving company boxes supplies but pack the records yourself.

Keep the vinyl outside the outer cover. 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. Pack some newspaper or bubble wrap in the space left in the box this will give your records some shock absorption during the ride.