Lifting heavy rack-mount gear (was Re: PDP-8/e rack questions)

[Diane Bruce]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:07:36PM +0100, Steve Maddison wrote:
> 2009/1/6 Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>:
> > On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Henk Gooijen wrote:
...
> >  I did mine alone as well.  It is definitely a very heavy machine.  I had
> > back pains for days after doing that.
> >
>
> Probably hard to justify the cost for occasional use, but I'd really
> like to get one of these before I do myself any permanent damage:

I knew someone online (IRC) who had a finger amputated because a rack
dropped on it. As a pianist, this squicked me quite a bit.

I would highly recommend caution to anyone moving any heavy rack, don't
be stupid.

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