Shipping Boxes For Speakers?

[Monroe]

Hope this the right place to ask this. If not, please move.
Does anyone have a source for boxes specifically for shipping raw speakers?
I offered to buy some from the guys in Kokomo, IN and it sounded like it was going to happen,
but they never followed through. (there was a time long ago when they offered them on their site)
Thanks

 

[ReWind James]

For most 12" speakers, I use a large USPS Flat Rate box, with a cut out section of another flat rate box to cover the cone with another layer, as an inside box. Don't ship it just like that, though, there's not nearly enough protection. The speaker will just barely fit! ...which is the idea for the internal box. It's just a first layer of defense.

Wrap that in a couple layers of good bubble wrap and put it inside a WalMart moving box. They have a size that perfectly fits one of those bubble wrapped USPS Large Flat Rate boxes, for shipping a single speaker, and a larger on that perfectly fits two, for shipping a pair.

That'll give you double layer protection with a very firm fit and plenty of padding.

The USPS boxes are free and the WalMart boxes are cheap. Hope Depot also has a size that works for the external box, which I've used when I had to, but they cost a bit more and are a hair larger so you'll need more bubble wrap, as it MUST be packed very firm.

 

[ReWind James]

btw - the boxes that Celestion speakers come in, and dealers often ship in, are only made to be shipped on pallets. They used to say right on the box "not for individual shipment" or something like that. Most dealers do it anyway and just eat the cost of the insurance claim when they arrive with coil rub or other damage. ...it's a bad practice, though. That's how speakers get wrecked.

 

[Monroe]

I am hoping to find the boxes like Weber uses.

 

[Monroe]

delete, double post

 

[Bygone_Tones]

Speaker Stuff

For each speaker you will need a long strip of cardboard, 12" in width:

speaker-stuff.weebly.com

 

[Xpensive Wino]

I am hoping to find the boxes like Weber uses.

They likely source theirs from here:

Corrugated Boxes, Corrugated Shipping Boxes in Stock - ULINE - Uline

Uline stocks over 1,650 different types and sizes of corrugated boxes. Order by 6 pm for same day shipping. Huge Catalog! Over 42,000 products in stock. 13 locations for fast delivery of corrugated shipping boxes.

www.uline.com