Sending a liferaft by courier

[mezereon]

I just bought a liferaft on ebay. Now I have to get it from Glasgow to London and I'm finding self-inflating life rafts explicitly prohibited on courier web sites.
Does anyone know a courier who will be happy to deliver it for me?

 

[DAKA]

City link used to transport them.
Make sure its well wrapped.

 

[mezereon]

Thanks

Brilliant thanks.
I was dismayed when i looked at their website and saw they don't do one-off deliveries (accounts only), but i've found an intermediary service that uses them.

 

[sarabande]

check out parcel2go

http://www.parcel2go.com/

I use them and the DHL option quite a bit. And don't recall seeing any prohibition of lieferafts.

 

[Angele]

I just bought a liferaft on ebay. Now I have to get it from Glasgow to London and I'm finding self-inflating life rafts explicitly prohibited on courier web sites.
Does anyone know a courier who will be happy to deliver it for me?

I have removed the gas cylinder, so it can't self-inflate. Honest!

So, no problem, you see.

No!!!! Don't pull that bit of rope.

 

[chanelyacht]

I can just see a driver trying to lift it by the "handle"!

 

[Twister_Ken]

My new one was bought online and delivered here by Parcelfarce. No problem. tho' it was v well boxed.

 

[penfold]

On a practical note, how would a courier tell what's inside once it's wrapped in cardboard?

 

[Woff]

More wasted money

I bought an old but unused one on ebay a few years ago to take to America by BA. Knowing that you couldn’t take a pressurised cylinder on an aeroplane I called the kids in to demonstrate what happens when you pull the cord. The answer on this occasion was nothing, not so much as a sneeze. I removed the flares and packed it into a bag along with some boats electronics and put it though checked luggage at Heathrow. As I went through the gate to board I was stopped and asked to unpack the bag by some airport heavies. Well done for picking it up I told them when they had been satisfied it wasn’t a bomb and as an after thought I asked whether the bag would be loaded. Their assurances didn’t satisfy my cynicism and I waited at the plane steps and refused to board until I saw it loaded. After some back and forth a small van arrived and I was told that that was my bag so I took my seat. You’ve probably guessed, they lied and no bag to be found at the other end, delaying me 24 hours in Baltimore.
When I took it to for testing and repackaging I was told that the new standards require a liferaft to be tested to a much higher pressure than previously and the old ones are obsolete and they wouldn’t re-charge the cylinder under any circumstances. Buyer beware!

 

[penfold]

When I took it to for testing and repackaging I was told that the new standards require a liferaft to be tested to a much higher pressure than previously and the old ones are obsolete and they wouldn’t re-charge the cylinder under any circumstances. Buyer beware!

What a pack of lies! How much did they pick your pocket for?

Take a look at the footpump that comes with an old liferaft and compare it with the footpump from a recent one; they're the same aren't they? Guess what? The tube pressure needed in a liferaft, as with rubber dinghys, as stayed pretty much the same since their invention; about 3 psi. You can't test to a higher pressure because there's a relief valve to prevent the CO2 cylinder exploding the tubes.