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mbear2k
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Post subject: Shipping a TV safely - What's the big deal?  Posted: Mar Tue 06, 2012 5:14 pm |
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Looks like all this time, we could have simply slapped postage on 'em and dropped off at UPS... Attachment:
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Mr. Detrola
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Post subject: Re: Shipping a TV safely - What's the big deal? Posted: Mar Tue 06, 2012 5:19 pm |
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United Parcel Smashers would still have found a way to destroy it......
Apparently the CEO of Molded Products was the brother of the CEO of Admiral according to what I have read in the past in other articles about that cabinet. The press was something like five stories tall and operated at unbelievable amounts of pressure.
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mbear2k
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Post subject: Re: Shipping a TV safely - What's the big deal? Posted: Mar Tue 06, 2012 5:43 pm |
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Interesting. 1948, and the press was designed for the Russian government... wonder what they made with it? I have one of these Admiral's and always thought they were a more fragile, Bakelite-like product.
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Mr. Detrola
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Post subject: Re: Shipping a TV safely - What's the big deal? Posted: Mar Tue 06, 2012 5:53 pm |
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They are Bakelite. Back in those days it was common for people to call Bakelite by other names, plastic was one of them.
There's an article in Radio Retailing or a similar trade magazine giving a lot more details about the introduction of this particular TV cabinet. At the time, it was the largest piece of Bakelite ever molded. Someone eventually built an even larger console TV cabinet out of Bakelite.
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bandersen
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Post subject: Re: Shipping a TV safely - What's the big deal? Posted: Mar Tue 06, 2012 8:12 pm |
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UPS managed to destroy one that was shipped to me   Yes, Admiral later made even larger 12, 14 and 16 inch console versions.
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Nick D.
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Post subject: Re: Shipping a TV safely - What's the big deal? Posted: Mar Thu 08, 2012 5:32 am |
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Post subject: Re: Shipping a TV safely - What's the big deal? Posted: Mar Fri 09, 2012 1:19 am |
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Use the bus.
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