[ On Sunday, June 24, 2001 at 19:36:29 (-0400), Leo Bicknell wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Operational Content, I think...
Something like this http://www.genielift.com/ml-series/ml-1-2.html from behind works quite well. They make a counterweighted version I can't find on the web site better for the front. With forks you can even side it into a rack.
Yeah, the counterweighted version would be almost ideal, at least if the forks are adjustable and will fit betwen 19" rails. There's a good picture of it on their "online brochure" page for the "ml series" link you gave, and from there a link to a larger picture.
With a flat platform welding on a heavy duity drawer slide will allow you to slide smaller gear in and out of a rack.
If you've got, or can make, a wee bit of space between cabinets (eg. with cabinets on wheels) then the straddle model would work well too.... Mobile Lift is another manufacturer of similar lifts / stackers, some with much higher lifting capacities. If you're putting stuff onto a shelf or existing rails (like you REALLY should be!) there are various companies making scissor-lift mobile carts/tables/dollies, though any adjustable lift should work in such a situation. Best value is probably a Mobile Lift 500-lb winch lift with 20x20" platform and 54" lift height at ~$775[cdn] from Avenue Inustrial Supply. Just mount the rails in the cabinet (or shelf on the rack) and mount the mating slides on the box, plop the box on the lift, wheel it into place, winch up to line up the rails (or shelf), and slide it into its new home. All of this issue of course clearly identifies why it's cricital to pay for the extra floor space and have suitable amounts of clearance on both sides of a rack or cabinet! ;-) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <woods@robohack.ca> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>