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A powder, when mixed with water, ferments into a thick shock-absorbant gelatin. Toss your fragile items into the mix and let it solidify. The gelatin's non-residual, so when you're unpacking you can just crumble it off. Comes in grape, strawberry, lime, orange, and chocolate pudding. Add fruit cocktail
for some extra 'pow'.
Instapak (foam packing technology)
http://www.sealedai...nstapak/default.htm
Polyurethane foam, but I'm sure you could come up with an equivalent foaming gelatin. [DrCurry, Oct 05 2004]
Foaming Gelatin
http://michaeldavy..../howto_foamgel.html
Recyclable, according to other links. [DrCurry, Oct 05 2004]
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How about some foaming action? |
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Foaming action is ++gooder. |
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The biggest problems may be (1) to get cardboard cartons that will not leak while the liquid gelatin is setting; (2) getting moving men who won't charge exorbitant fees for the extra weight; and (3) finding moving vans that are properly refrigerated so that all your careful packaging doesn't melt and evaporate as your fragile crystal crosses the Mojave, Gibson, or Kalahari Deserts. Oh, and mice. Did I mention mice and other critters? Maybe you should just stick to sheet foam and styrofoam peanuts. |
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It would be rather heavy. How
about packing marshmallows?
(Actually, I have seen rice used in
Indonesia as a packing medium for
eggs) |
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Packing marshmallows. Now there's an idea. |
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Heavy, plus everything would settle to the bottom before the gelatin set up. |
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Re mice: Mix in some poison, and if mice eat the Jello, you'll still have dead mouse bodies to cushion the package contents. Or if it's left a bit longer, maggots. |
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Definitely could be done with foam, which should resist settling better. The other solution is to provide simple formers to hold the plates in place while the foam dries. Cute. |
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Expanding foam as packing material is Baked. |
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Jello would be fun if you could eat it, but would probably melt in transit. |
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Ugh. Thankfully non-packing material Jello that you can eat already exists. |
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Masterfully restated, gentlemen. My hat's off. |
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Mind you, this gelatin wouldn't be exactly like Jello; it wouldn't melt at room temperature. And the density could be at such a level that things float instead of sink. |
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How packing it with a lighter-than-air solid. Should even reduce the shipping cost. |
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[blissmiss] I'm sad that your peanut-flavored packing peanuts idea died in the purge. I check my mailbox every day hoping to get a box full of peanut butter from you. |
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