Shipping bulbs...

[mkzimms]

Anyone have a good method for shipping bulbs. Im going to have a few 36" T5s shipped to me. The last set i had shipped came all smashed because they were left in the fixture. Any thoughts? I was thinking a few circle pieces of foam with holes through over the length of the bulbs to keep them separated and stabilized...
Like this...

or would wrapping the whole fixture in a few layers of bubble wrap be ok...? i just dont want to go through the whole bulb breaking thing again.

 

[spiderwoman]

I just received an order of bulbs for my fixture and they were first put in individual boxes and then in a larger box packed with bubblewrap and crunched paper. These came straight from a store.

 

[reefraff]

Order your lamps from reef geek. Between personal use and group buys I've order well over 100 lamps from them over the last 5 years, never had a sigle broken lamp and that includes probably 20 of the 5 foot long lamps. 3 foot lamps are pretty easy to ship.