On 2/5/19 12:19 PM, Jack Harper via cctalk wrote: > > > Greetings to the List - > > My very sincere THANKS for the enlightening responses from Chuck Guzis, > Brent Hilpert and Jay West on mounting the HP 7970 tape drive Beasts. > > I am out of town on business for a couple days and will inspect things > when I return. > > > Chuck is, of course, 100% correct on the Tipping Factor. > > I learned that very quickly - If you open the front of the Drive and > swing out the door with the electronics, drive motors etc, it is > definitely heavy enough to tip a rack. > > I bolted the destination 19" rack down to the concrete floor with 3/8" > bolts. It will not, I hope, soon go anywhere.
After struggling years earlier with getting a Fujitsu drive into a rack by my lonesome, I was determined not to repeat the process. The rack, VTW, is from an old HP Storage Array, which has a nice anti-tip pullout on the bottom. I constructed a dolly for the HP drive that allows me to roll it around where I need it. It's low enough that it can slip under a table. I should have done the same for the Fuji drive, now that i think about it. I leave the heavy lifting to the young bucks like yourself. When you break one of the retention levers (they get brittle with age), drop me a line. I have some 3D printed up from nylon that work just fine. --Chuck