packing light stand case?

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elusive1

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Sorry, this is kind of a silly question. But I have 4 light stands and I usually just pile them into the large carrying bag (just one big bag, no separators).

Do you guys usually put some type of separators between your lights stands when you put them in a bag to keep them from getting scratched or dinged? Or do you guys just put them all in together and not worry about dinging your light stands?
 
I pack everything into the back of my truck and leave a skinny slot for all the light stands to pile in to.

If you bought the right ones then they can take it.
 
I use old bath towels as "compact moving pads" between the stands. I use several black stands (for appearance purposes) and the finish gets dinged if you just bang them around. And I keep a large white beach towel in my camera bag for extra padding also. It has come in handy for doing white balance from far away.
 
I have a 12' enclosed trailer packed to the gills with gear. C-stands sit on the floor and their gobo heads hang from a shelf. Baby light stands hang by their yoke brackets on the wall. Medium weight light stands are on a shelf with carpet on it but no padding between them. I keep them from shifting around by placing a couple of sandbags across them. Hi-hi rollers and combos ride on the floor or in the back of my SUV.

I don't like beat-up gear but just a little patina from use is fine.
 
I buy the sorta-rubber non-scoot shelf liner material at Costco. It is cheap and provides great chafe protection for any hardware in a bag such as stands. Works great for all the misc stuff in a crane kit too.

Grant
 
ggrantly said:
I buy the sorta-rubber non-scoot shelf liner material at Costco. It is cheap and provides great chafe protection for any hardware in a bag such as stands. Works great for all the misc stuff in a crane kit too.

Grant
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Oh, that's a good idea. You can get that stuff in black too. I think mechanics use it to pad their tool boxes.

Another good material is the kind of pad that goes under laminate floor planks such as Pergo. You get it at Home Depot or Lowe's and the green stuff is not only a good, light thin pad, it adds a lot of friction as well. I use 4" squares of the green stuff to pad clamps that go on furniture, doors, etc., but it would be great to pad and separate hardware and grip.
 
I pack my stands tight. I have a big Petrol case that's pretty solid and I stack my stands on one side making sure they all kind of sit on top of another. The rest of the compartments are packed so once I close the thing they have nowhere to go. At my old studio we just loaded c-stands onto sidewalks and on and off trucks; no cases unless someone was going on a plane and the kit stands got thrown in a case with the sticks so I second that solid stands don't have to be babied. I'll add though, anytime we had to pad something, those pieces of duvetyne came in super handy.
 
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