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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Akima:
Mmm... I've had issues in the past with managements that don't understand that a lot of computer equipment is heavy and that shelves to store it need to be sturdy. Quite a few shelving systems are badly designed IMHO too. That style of shelving that relies on a slotted steel rail screwed back to the wall, for example, is only as strong as the wall fixings, and if the wall is plasterboard (drywall) that is pretty feeble, even if the installers bother to fasten into the studs behind. A pet dislike of mine are systems that might be sturdy enough in the shelves and uprights themselves, but rely on stupid little metal pins to link them together, which serve to act as stress-raisers (yes, I am an engineer's daughter, why do you ask?).
I am very glad to hear that you are unhurt.
Is it cold in here?:
Scary. Any lessons I should take away from whatever the failure mode was?
Pilchard123:
Don't stand under falling things?
BeoPuppy:
Never shower?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Akima on 12 Jan 2015, 13:30 ---(yes, I am an engineer's daughter, why do you ask?)
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And I am an engineer by training. But sometimes you just delegate, and when there is a whole building full of shelves holding large amounts of equipment and paper (paper's heavy, too, you know!), and when your shelves put up by the same people have had your equipment on them for seven years, well, you get a little bit blasé I guess.
The fixings were into the plasterboard (decent heavy-grade stuff), not the studs, and used those fat coarse screws that the fitting screws go into in turn, rather than positive toggle bolts or similar. I was not impressed, really.
I've demanded floor-standing Dexion shelving as a replacement.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jan 2015, 13:41 ---Scary. Any lessons I should take away from whatever the failure mode was?
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Never stop questioning.
Failure modes you're familiar with at home can happen just as easily at work, even though it can be someone else's fault!
Management is about what you can get away with... (OK, I'm feeling cynical, can you tell?)
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