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I moved my cabinet tv's, including George, my CTC5 over 100 miles in the bed of a pickup with a spare mattress under it, set face down, did the same for several other old cabinet tv's. Then when I got home "run around and yelling woohoo, woohoo!" When I was a kid however, I picked up portables by balancing them on my bicycle seat and walking them home. Cabinet sets were a different story. On the B&W sets I often wondered if I was going to find some little metal thing had fallen down onto the face of the screen and messed up the phosphorus but never happened..... The mattress probably gives the best insulation to the tube, is my thoughts.... and it makes the whole thing slide out nice too. Mattress with the green plastic silky feeling cover to it. I loosely tie the set to the bed so as not to let the road bumps transmit to the set. I think that anything that does not sit in a seat actually gets quite a vibration, so for an old cabinet set, I keep the mattress around....