[132776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cage nuts/rack hw near SAVVIS DC3 (Sterling VA)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Dec 1 10:54:55 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <4CF65F0D.5060502@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:54:37 -0500
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 1, 2010, at 9:43 AM, JC Dill wrote:
> On 30/11/10 5:32 AM, Christopher J. Pilkington wrote:
>> Anyone know where I can buy cage nuts and rack screws locally
>> near SAVVIS DC3 in Sterling, VA? They don't seem to have a
>> local supply here, and somehow the racks we bought came with
>> a 2:1 screw:nuts ratio.
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> I really don't understand why someone hasn't put vending machines in =
every major colo around the world. We have vending machines that sell =
ipods at the maul, we can certainly have a vending machine that sells =
rack nuts and screws, patch cables, tools, etc. at colos.
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I had that idea back in 2003, after getting very frustrated late one =
Saturday evening because I didn't have something like cage nuts, and =
actually tried
to interest the management of Switch and Data into doing it, but it went =
nowhere.
I am sure I was not the first here...
Regards
Marshall=20
> jc
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