Can anyone tell me the wight of such an item please - i need to work out costs/feasability for shipping.
Steve

I don't know about the UK shipping choices but I had one shipped years back for something like $30 using UPS. We also have a bus lines that goes all over the country, Greyhound Bus, that I used to ship heavy items, but they mandate using a wooden crate or box, no cardboard allowed on heavy items. They only go terminal-to-terminal and the cost is lower than UPS or trucking companies here. Trucking companies generally will pick up a palletized shipment, meaning the item has to be strapped to a wooden pallet.
The OM617 300TD head I received was packaged in real heavy cardboard, not the kind you find every day, it probably had double thick walls (something like 250 lb test).

An iron head has to weigh at least 60 lbs (29.5 kG) or more unpacked. You might have an aluminum head (you didn't indicate what year model you have) but its heavy too.
DDH

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It was a long time ago, but I shipped one and I think it weighed slightly over 100 pounds once I crated in a crate that I made from 2 by's.

Hope this helps,

JUst sent one out. Weighed 78lbs in a heavy cardboard box. Shipped from Long Island NY to Wisconsin (I believe) via FED EX. Shipping was 42.00. Fed EX is the cheapest. For that weight Fed ex will only ship to a business so address it to " Jims auto Repair" At the address you are mailing it to. You get the idea. Mike

thanks for all the advice & I should have said that this is for a w123
Steve

Check out Forwardair.com for the least expensive shiping. They ship only from major air ports. Just shipped a 165 pound crated transaxle from Los Angeles to Charleston SC for $64 that included $2500 insurance.

What a deal! I'll definitely keep them in mind for the future. I recall using Airborne, I think they were bought out by DHL or somebody recently - they were so slow and it took them 2 days for them to find tracking info once. It happend to me twice actually, I can't say they are very good in that respect but at least they didn't do what UPS did to me once, that is leave a package at the right business address but on the wrong street! My UPS power supply sat at a Radio Shack store several days before I got the tracking info and went to get it myself. I don't trust UPS any further than I can spit!
DDH

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'95 E320 Wagon my favorite road car. '99 E300D wolf in sheeps body, '87 300D Sportline suspension, '79 300TD w/ 617.952 engine at 367,750 and counting!