seeking advice on moving PDP 11 and related gear

On Thursday (07/02/2015 at 03:16PM -0400), Noel Chiappa wrote: this A tiny bit more advice, Don't forget or loose the "third foot" that is at the bottom middle of the rack and slides out toward the front to keep the rack from tipping over once you have the 11/34 racked and slide it out to work on it. The machine is plenty heavy enough to tip over even a rack that has two RLs also installed in it. It's an important safety feature. I found the 11/34A too heavy to lift into position in my rack above the one RL at the bottom by myself so I used "cribbing" to raise it a little bit at a time. I used 3' lengths of 2x2 pine, a large pile of them, and lifted each side, front and back of the machine 2" at a time and slid one 2x2 in each time I lifted it. I kept lifting a little and raising until the machine was almost exactly aligned with the rack slides in the middle (of my "corporate rack") and then I slid the rack up to the machine rather than other way around. Worked like a charm and I never had to lift that bad boy more than about 2". I like being self-sufficient and not having to bug people when I want to play with this gear so this was the poor man's option over purchasing an engine hoist or a lot of steroids. Chris -- Chris Elmquist