How do _you_ move equipment? What "tools" do you use?

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Tue Oct 21 15:04:01 2003

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Jay West wrote:

> For moving racks, I just use a regular van, with a few extra steps. I have

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> Now what I REALLY want - is one of those lift genies that is like a hand
> truck but with a large flat platform that you pump up and down. Not to move
> racks, but to lift disc drives and tape drives up from 5 inches to 5 feet,
> so that they can be easily rackmounted. Haven't found one cheap yet though.


  The cheapest I've found this item new (and I still have faint hopes of
discovering one used) is in the Global Industrial catalog,
www.globalindustrial.com there's one that has a hand-winch and lifts 500
pounds from 4.25" to 54" high... it's $410, part number HN585198. I'm
actually considering this one - coming from someone who has installed
Kennedy 9300 machines up 4' in a rack by himself - because it's exactly
the thing for shifting and positioning Big Heavy Computing Thingies - or
BHCTs as we Collectors fondly know them.

 The catalog lists many others - from hand to hydraulic power, but they
get expensive fast. Still, $400 ain't that bad for what it is...


  Cheerz

John
Received on Tue Oct 21 2003 - 15:04:01 BST