4 Jul
2016
4 Jul
'16
5:12 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
So there was some discussion a while back about using
lifts to put heavy gear
in racks. I'm going to be doing some of that soon, and I was wondering how I'd
go about acquiring something like that at a non-exorbitant price? (eBait was
not useful, and Googling "user server lift" didn't produce anything
either.)
Any ideas?
I work in a datacenter. We use a lift from the aptly-named Serverlift
Corporation almost daily. They're run off of 12V batteries and can
lift a few hundred pounds. Of course, they are nowhere near cheap:
http://serverlift.com/solutions/products/sl500x-server-lift/
They also weigh enough that you'd never want to bring one down a
flight of stairs.
The Grainger and McMaster manual lifts do look useful and far more manageable.
-j