Bubble wrap is false security. It can't take up the energy of an impact the likes of falling out the back of the van. Not much can.
Your mission is to keep up appearances and make it difficult for them to break it.
1 box far too big.
1 box just big enough.
A large number of small sturdy boxes.
Stanley knife.
Bubble Wrap.
Wrap cab in enough BW to make it snug in the just size box. You can make a just size box from two identical boxes that are the right footprint, tops cut off and jammed together.
Take your multitude of small boxes and cut them up through the guts so you make a bunch of corners. These you nest around the corners of your just size box so it fits in the oversized box. Pack the leftover space with squishy stuff for show.
People tell you all sorts of things. Unless they know your band and your venue they are full of it. Same goes for the people who tell you a 100w one will blow the doors off the Dog'n'Duck and get you fired.
I've played plenty of gigs at the D'n'D with a 200w tube amp in full flight into 215. Too loud for some but nobody complained. I played with some of same players with a 50w into 210 but that was slightly rowdy jazz.
You can put the amp under the cab if necessary.
Let's ask an expert. Renwick. 'Rennick' or 'Wren Wick'?
The Duke of Marlborough resides at Blenheim Castle.
Renwick is in 'Marlbrah', up the road from 'Blennim'.
Bear power tend to pop their clogs when the grounding provided by the star washer to the chassis fails.
I guess this could happen in new amps if there was too much paint on the chassis and too little spanner applied to the nut or there may have been other infant mortality modes.
Later on vintage amps suffered star washer corrosion, enough to do the trick of ungrounding and suffered 'death' also.
Should definitely find out if the Clive mod is something else altogether.
The thing to do would be take the amp out and make a new box for it. That will make the decombo'd ''cab only'' around 13kg lighter for picking up.
Get a trolley for moving it A to B.
The real problem is Google used to be able to search terms and only those terms and it would comply. Now it returns advertiser results that kinda sorta fit. Shame.
How hard would it be to implement a set of compulsory fields to each bass for sale?
Price, string count, scale length, active/passive would cover the biggest divisions.
Do not underestimate the quality of dispersion.
I was playing in a band where the lead guitar and I would often riff off one another. The 'stage' at one pub was just a bit wider and flatter and one time I took the 215 instead of 115 210 tall stack.
He's struggling to hear what I am doing because he's on the far side and too wide of the 15's to get the tone, so he's working off bumpity bump bump bump only.