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Post by bklynfinest911 on May 31, 2012 22:00:09 GMT -5
how much does a 50cc short case motor weight and how do you package it for ups?
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Post by 90GTVert on May 31, 2012 22:07:07 GMT -5
I think around 40 pounds. Both the engines I've bought came shipped in blocks of styrofoam.
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Post by bklynfinest911 on May 31, 2012 22:20:27 GMT -5
how bout the motor with the shock and rear tire still attached?
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Post by 90GTVert on Jun 1, 2012 6:23:39 GMT -5
It depends on the shock, what wheel, and what tire, but I'd imagine you'd be adding 15-20 pounds.
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Post by 2strokd on Jun 1, 2012 7:53:59 GMT -5
Sounds about right. I weighed my engine the other day and it came out to 40lbs. My rear wheel and tire are 14lb together. Add another 5 or so for the shock. Sounds right...
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Post by \\-olf on Jun 1, 2012 10:52:08 GMT -5
Well, for something like this the best method is building a plywood crate for it and lining it with a couple of inches of styrofoam board. I ship things this way almost every week and never had damage. I use 1/2" CDX but you can get away with 3/8," I rip strips of 3/4" plywood 3/4" wide and use them inside the crate for air nailing the crate together. The lid can be screwed or air nailed on. The alternative is finding a BIG cardboard box that's not TOO big and allows at least 3" of space all around the item- very hard to find just sitting tossed in the trash, and then packing it well, but cardboard boxes don't hold up well for shipping things like this, and all it takes is on bad bump in the wrong place and you have damage. If there isn't a minimum of 3" of packing all around the item, UPS can and will deny your damage claim, and you are out of luck. So it's better to just spend a little more time/money and CRATE it.   |
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Post by bklynfinest911 on Jun 1, 2012 15:58:11 GMT -5
looks nice man but i dnt have access to tools to make something like that..
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Post by skuttadawg on Jun 2, 2012 1:29:47 GMT -5
UPS they need the weight and dimensions to quote a shipping price . You might opt to let them package it up and have whoever you ship it to pay for it
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Post by \\-olf on Jun 2, 2012 3:05:10 GMT -5
looks nice man but i dnt have access to tools to make something like that.. Well I have access to a $20,000 tablesaw but you only need a jigsaw and a nailgun... Alternatively if you have a UPSstore near you, they will pack and ship items FOR you for a nominal packing fee. Try this; www.theupsstore.com/Pages/index.aspxIve used them lots to get things shipped TO me purchased at auctions and stuff, and they typically charge only alittle more than the box, packing materials and a little more. I just had a similar outfit go and get a 125# item for me from an auction place back East, they crated it in a recycled crate they buy for half price, LOTS of packing in there, and the cost to go get the item, crate, crating it, and all the packing materials to ship it via truck to me their charge was about $139.58 The crate was 31" long, 22 x 25" and it was 181 pounds. One thing I like about the UPSstore too is, since THEY are doing all the packing- THEY and UPS are jointly 100% responsible for any damage and if UPS tries to deny the claim, you have the UPSstore who packed the item on the hook  |
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Post by 90GTVert on Jun 2, 2012 6:21:55 GMT -5
I shipped a pipe from my car's turbo setup via the UPS Store a few years ago. Cost me $50. Since then I've packed everything myself. I've shipped scooter exhausts back to 190mech a few times packing them myself and printing the label online. They are almost identical boxes and weights and it only costs $16 when I pack them. Still, if you can't do it right it's better to spend the money to get it done than to damage the engine. I think all you'd really need to do is go somewhere that sells appliances. They tend to have large boxes around so you could make your own cardboard box. Hopefully they'd have some styrofoam around too. If you have to, buy a couple of sheets of foam. Craft stores should sell it cheap. Pack the box full of some sort of packing material and try to pack it tight enough that the engine doesn't move around. Tape the heck out of the box so you're sure it's secure. The wood box would be great, but what I mentioned is pretty much how my last 2 engines arrived and they were undamaged.
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Post by \\-olf on Jun 3, 2012 2:59:25 GMT -5
Every UPSstore is a franchise, so each of them sets their own prices, but every time I've used one Ive always found their charges very cheap, especially when I've had at least 3 of them go out and retrieve an iten from a seller for me and pack/ship it.
Most I paid I think was around $600 to a UPSstore when I bought a 350# item and one store couldn't handle the weight, and the second one I called couldn't by himself either, but he got a couple of friends, they took their pickup, a trailer and drove way up into the mountains about 30 miles away to this guy's place, got the item, brought it back to the store, crated and shipped it via FedEx freight.
That was cheap compared to the price quoted by a mover, it was something like 2 men minimum @ $200/hour per man, 4 hours minimum, and that was just to go and pick up the item and get it back to their warehouse, packing, crating was more.
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