On 11/15/2011 3:58 PM, Martin James Gehrke wrote:
Anyone have an experience or pointers on shipping racks?
I need to get an empty 48U APC rack packaged and shipped.
They arrive bolted to a pallet with copious wrapping. Seeing as they
cost ~1200, if this costs too much we'll just a new one.
Thanks,
Martin
We've had racks shipped fully loaded and empty. If you are shipping
fully loaded, you simply must get it attached to a pallet. The best is
to put it in a crate made of plywood. The best of those one side folds
down the hasps and twist locks like you might find on a chest and that
side of the crate turns into a ramp and the top pulls off with either
more clamps or bolts so that the rack can be unbolted from the pallet
and rolled down the ramp without a tremendous amount of difficulty (this
requires careful thought from the packaging organization, and many do this)
An empty rack usually only requires a pallet, though rapping the top
with bubble wrap would be ok. THe way that a major APC shipper located
in Jonestown, PA does this is put it on a pallet, put cardboard
'corners' on the 4 top corners and sides of the rack and wrap it in
shrink wrap. About 4 years ago we had a bunch that were damaged after
this (usually by forklift), but since then it seems to have gotten
somewhat better.
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