[37652] in Hotline Meeting
quickstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Lackey)
Wed Apr 2 03:35:32 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 03:35:27 EST
From: Ryan Lackey <rdl@MIT.EDU>
I just noticed that the quickstations (at least the building 12 fishbowl
quickstation) are secured with an anchorpad to a shelf which is only
secured to the rack by a single phillips head screw. I think it would be
a good idea to run a cable lock through the workstation and over the screw,
so that to take the screw out you need to remove the steel cable too. That
would mean people couldn't walk off with a ss classic and shelf using only
a screwdriver -- they'd need boltcutters as well. Also, you might want to use
the funky one-way screws instead of phillips on the shelves -- they have
slits cut in them with extra space so if you're not using one of the special
screwdrivers, you can't reverse the direction of turn and remove the screws.
Just my thoughts -- I'm not interested in stealing hardware, but I like the
quickstations and would like to make sure they don't walk off (as if anyone
would want a SS classic, but that's another issue...)
Thanks,
Ryan
rdl@mit.edu
(as much as I was annoyed by losing the fishbowl mkI, the building 12 cluster
is pretty cool too, and more convenient, so I'm happy)
--
Ryan Lackey
rdl@mit.edu 3 Ames Street 617/225 6444
http://mit.edu/rdl/ Cambridge, MA 02142
