How should DOM be shipped?

APJeeps

APJeeps

Aaron Darnell
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Oct 14, 2014
Location
Greensboro NC
ordered some tubing off the interwebs and kinda wondering how it should be shipped in the mail, in other words how should it look when it gets to my door? what you guys think?
 
I've ordered everything from DOM roll cages to steering kits and it's always showed up by delivery truck. UPS guy hates my guts.
 
XJsavage said:
I've ordered everything from DOM roll cages to steering kits and it's always showed up by delivery truck. UPS guy hates my guts.
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more so what it should be wrapped in, its already here and I dont want to say any company names but im not real impressed. has the stuff youve ordered been in saran wrap?
 
I order most of my stuff from onlinemetals.com. Only bad thing is they limit length to 8'. But they send their tube etc inside heavy cardboard tubes. Tubes are typically wrapped together with plastic caps taped to the end of the cardboard tube.
 
okay thats what i thought because I have ordered parts from barnes4wd and its perfect they wrap everything like 3 times. My "new" tubing from this other company my steering was two peices of tubing taped together with at two points and a shipping label slapped on it. leaving the tube completly exposed. no box, no plastic and no caps now heres the part that pissed me off it took a month for the parts to get here but the high steer arms and the tubing already has some surface rust.
 
APJeeps said:
more so what it should be wrapped in, its already here and I dont want to say any company names but im not real impressed. has the stuff youve ordered been in saran wrap?
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It's come to me bare and in some kinda shink wrap nonsense. At the end of the day, it's DOM tubing. It's kinda hard to fawk it up.
 
My random stuff comes just like you described. A month though? It come from Timbucktoo?
 
It's steel tubing if it's over 4ft I wouldn't expect it boxed. Both of the pre made bumpers I've bought were shipped bare with the labels slapped On them. If the delivery guy bends it he's had a bad day anyways and a whole lot of other shit got broke
 
I get mine delivered shrink wrapped together on the ends but on the back of a flatbed truck (22' sticks).
I ship my tubing shrink wrapped the entire length (<5') with a label on the wrap. Pretty standard process
 
I wouldn't expect tube to be boxed.

Surface rust happens nearly overnight on some metals, especially machines surfaces or cold rolled if it's not oiled. It's just part of it.
 
Most of the tube I've bought has just been banded together shipping tag wired to the band and on a flatbed truck sometimes with some surface rust sometimes not guess it depends how long it was in the warehouse.
 
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