What company did you use? On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Doug Hughes <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. > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss<https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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