Source for server lift/hoist? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Jul 2016

harbor freight has some excellent  platform lift things...
worth checking....
we like things like this as   large TV studio cameras  weigh  100 to 200
<<and one here is  300  (tk42)>...

when we get a caucus in and want to clean it up  and make it  presentable
for display we like to work on it  at bench  height...
(once in a while it is  good  to raise a tape  drive   up in  the air
too...)
<< I can't believe I used to grab a 7970E out of a rack... walk it  across
the computer room and put in another  rack by my self......no  more....  I
just look at it in the rack and get tired  now!!>>...

ED#
In a message dated 7/4/2016 4:12:07 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
elson at pico-systems.com writes:
On  07/04/2016 05:57 PM, Noel Chiappa 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.)
...
  I've used an "engine hoist" around
the shop to move heavy
stuff.  It has an extendable beam and a bottle jack to raise
it.  It folds up into a pretty small package when not in
use.  These can often be had pretty  cheaply.
Jon