From jake92028@yahoo.com Wed May 10 01:22:07 2006
Subject:Re: Gator Semi-hard cases


> Srdjan Batosic wrote: I got two of them for my
Motif es6 and Korg CX-3 and intend to use them to ship the keyboards
to Europe by plane. I will stuff them with clothes and ship them in
the original cardboard boxes.
> Am I crazy to do this? Hard cases were unbelievably expensive and
I got these two for 99 each....

If you're going to ship them by air with expensive pieces of gear, I'd
take extra care. I think Gator is "medium" quality for air shipment,
in other words, good, but not the best). I would pack every square
centimeter of space around the keyboards with cut foam. Then after
closing them, I'd put a few wraps of the heaviest packing tape you can
get around the side-to-side width of the whole case - the center and
half-way to each end. If customs has to open them (maybe only xray?)
they might be kind enough to retape them. I'd still put them in the
extra cardboard box. Wj