We've not originated one, but for receipt we've had a few ship us full
racks, one being Appro (several times), one being Colfax.
For empty racks they just come from the APC distributor.
There are any number of companies you can contract for the freight
delivery part. http://www.platinum-shipping.com is one that
specializes in computer gear, cabinets, etc. that we've used previously.
They aren't cheap, but they are competent. The pricing
will probably be more competitive for shipping full racks than empty ones.
On 11/16/2011 9:13 AM, Martin James Gehrke wrote:
What company did you use?
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Doug Hughes <d...@will.to
<mailto:d...@will.to>> wrote:
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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