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Re: Spec for Replacement Shelving for PressShop Invitation Stocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Fri Aug 28 21:17:39 2015
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:17:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Victoria Xiao <vxiao@mit.edu>
cc: "apo-printshop-manager@mit.edu" <apo-printshop-manager@mit.edu>,
"apo-printshop@mit.edu" <apo-printshop@mit.edu>,
"apo-om@mit.edu" <apo-om@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <D200AD42.12E17%vxiao@mit.edu>
You're welcome.
But it's not what I would like.
(What I would like is quite different.)
You have my recommendation based on my understanding of what is best
for the Shop, and the actives who will be using it from here on out.
That can change. E.g. Charley's input on sub-standard wheels could
change it.
later -len
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:16:30 -0400
From: Victoria Xiao <vxiao@mit.edu>
To: "tower@alum.mit.edu" <tower@alum.mit.edu>,
"apo-printshop-manager@mit.edu" <apo-printshop-manager@mit.edu>
Cc: "apo-printshop@mit.edu" <apo-printshop@mit.edu>,
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Subject: Re: Spec for Replacement Shelving for PressShop Invitation Stocks
Hi Len,
I will buy replacement shelving after the office reorganization. Thank you
for giving me guidance as to what kind of shelves you would like.
Best,
Vicki
On 8/23/15, 11:48 PM, "Leonard H. Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>Hi Vicki
>
>The most relevant older emails are attached. I couldn't find a copy of
>the emails I sent Nathan when he was PSM before Molly and then you.
>
>* The invitation panel stock and envelopes weight 500 plus pounds.
>
> The replacement value of the panels and envelopes is somewhere between
> $1,500.00 and $2,000.00,
>
> So substantial shelving is wanted. Perhaps heavier than what SWE
> has.
>
>* The old shelving was 12" deep x 30" wide x 60" high. There were six
> shelves including the one at bottom/floor & one at the top.
>
> If the replacement shelves are going where the old one was (between
> the taller green chalk board and the entrance to the rear APOffice on
> the yellow wall), the shelving can't be wider than 30" to have enough
> clearance for the electrical outlet & the shelf tray. it can't be
> deeper or it be even harder to get by it to the rear APOffice.
>
> the old shelves were very full, so I suggest we get more height, and
> perhaps seven or eight shelves total.
>
>* We have five sizes of these panels & envelopes, and the boxes are
> different in height. so i suggest the distance between shelves
> reflect this with more space at the bottom, decreasing with each shelf
> to narrowest at the top.
>
> I be happy to assemble them, +/or be on hand when it's done.
>
> To me, this would be easiest to do when they are assembled. Measure
> the box heights of all five sizes, and decide what the height of each
> vertical gap should be.
>
>* I advise that these shelves be up on wheels (also known as, casters).
> At least two of them locking wheels (also known as, casters with
> brakes), which would be installed on the front.
>
> The cut card stock (the wooden shelves against the windows between the
> large press and the lockup table have been up on wheels for over four
> decades, and has made giving CAC access to the window or radiator
> behind those shelves much easier. And also safer for the stock than
> unloading all those boxes by hand. Also much quicker to unlock the
> wheels and carefully move the shelves. It's never tipped over, and
> been quite stable.
>
> If the new shelves go where the broken shelves were, it is necessary
> to move them easily whenever access to the power cord(s) and network
> cable behind is needed.
>
> If the new shelves end up against the windows, they need to be move
> when the CAC need to fix the windows or the radiators.
>
>* Funding could come from the Press Fund, unless the Chapter wants to
> fund it from the General Fund (or whatever it's called now.)
>
>* To summarize:
>
> ** 12" wide maximum
>
> ** 30" inches wide maximum
>
> ** one adjustable shelf for each foot of height
>
> ** 72" high (seven shelves) to 84" high (eight shelves) (plus the
> heights of the wheels)
>
> ** 72' or 84" vertical poles in one piece
>
> ** 2 to 4 locking swivel wheels (aka casters with brakes)
> (not sure the SWE shelves have locks.)
>
> ** Can handle a 500 plus lbs of weight
> (I can't estimate the weight of the inventory without going to the
> APOffice, and I'm out of town until after 25 Dec.)
>
>* Here a possibility:
>
> either 72" or 84"
> basic unit with no wheels and only four shelves:
>
>http://www.theshelvingstore.com/SI-12-d-x-30-w-Chrome-Wire-Shelving-Unit-p
>/sc123054-p.htm
>
> two to four extra shelves:
>
>https://www.theshelvingstore.com/SI-Chrome-Wire-Shelf-12-d-p/sis-12-p.htm
>
> 4" casters are more stable and easier to roll
>
>https://www.theshelvingstore.com/Rubber-Casters-with-brake-Threaded-Set-of
>-4-p/4si-arc3wb-p.htm
>
>* A second possibility:
>
>
>http://www.shelving.com/SI-18-d-x-30-w-5-Shelf-Wire-Shelving-Unit-p/sc1830
>72-5p.htm
>
> links to extra shelves & casters lower down on the page.
>
>yiLFS -len
>
>
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>Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 23:38:20 -0500
>From: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
>To: Molly R Kosiarek <kosiarek@mit.edu>
>Cc: apo-printshop@mit.edu
>Subject: Spec for Wire Shelving for Press Shop Invitation Stock Inventory
>
>Hi Molly and other Printers who are not PSM
>
>To replace the collasped shelves that have left the APOffice.
>Used to store the Shop's inventory of plain & panel invitations,
>envelopes, and misc paper.
>
>Anyone think of anything I missed?
>
>Any questions?
>
>The brand of shelving SWE has seems sturdy enough.
>
>Specs:
>
> * 12" wide maximum
>
> * around 30" inches wide
>
> * 72" to 84" high (plus the heights of the wheels?)
>
> * Can handle a 1,000 lbs of weight
> (I can't estimate the weight of the inventory without going to the
> APOffice, and I'm out of town until after 25 Dec.)
>
> * one adjustable shelf for each foot of height
>
> * 4 locking swivel wheels (aka casters)
> (not sure the SWE shelves have locks.)
>
>yiLFS -len
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>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 22:55:02 -0400
>From: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
>To: apo-actives@mit.edu, apo-pledges@mit.edu
>Cc: apo-printshop@mit.edu
>Subject: DEAD - invite card/envelope shelves
>
>Hi brothers,
>
>* I walked in the APOffice this afternoon, and found the metal shelves
> by the yellow wall entry to the rear APOffice ('ween the Grey PAINTS
> cabinet, and the floor to ceiling green chalk board) bent out with much
> of the card and envelopes on the floor.
>
>* If you know how this happened, please let us know, so we learn what
> not to do in the future.
>
> The adjacent couch was away from the wall, with some of the stock
> behind it. This makes me wonder if someone tried to move the
> shelves from the middle? Perhaps to get at the cables behind them?
>
>* PFTGOTO: it's is best to move tall furniture from the bottom, with a
>one or
> more people balancing the top.
>
>* PFTGOTO: if you are aware of a safety issue in the APOffice, send
> email to
> apo-news@mit.edu
>
>* The contents of the shelves are now temporarily in four boxes. They
> are HEAVY and flimsy. PLEASE be careful if you have to move them.
>
>* Molly came by the APOffice, and as Press Shop Manager said we would
> not try to fix the shelves, but would replace them.
>
>* I suggest AX get heavy duty rolling shelves like the three SWE has
> in their corner. But with five or six shelves each.
>
> It also be good to replace the scrapbook shelves with rolling
> shelves, so repair and maintenance of that radiator would be
> easier.
>
>* I plan to take the old shelves apart, and take the pieces home.
>
>yiLFS -len
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