13 Jan
2010
13 Jan
'10
6:09 p.m.
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
When I needed to find a place to put my SP2 frame I contacted my landlord
(for the office in town I rent) and asked him about the floor loadings. He
is a pretty nice guy (and, ok, my wife's uncle) and said the subfloor was
concrete (even though I'm on the second floor) but it was only rated to
about 500lbs/sqft. He then brought me a sheet of 3/4" ply which he put
down in the middle of the floor for me - that I then placed the empty SP2
rack on, and slowly built the machine back up to its complete 2200lbs
weight. I figure if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for me...
I guess it's not what you know, but who you know, right?
- JP
My entry in
this competition is when I moved my VAX 11/750 into my
apartment.
Your landlord allowed this? When we moved a VAX 11/750 into a
commercial office building, we had to pay to have the floor (second
floor offices) reinforced (a platform built over the existing floor)
because of the loading specs. I don't know if it was strictly
necessary (perhaps the number is a worst-case-fully-populated
situation) but it wasn't inexpensive.