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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you Paul! This is what I would expect. It seems many of the compactorr companies have moved to steel gauge drawers and no longer do aluminum in house. I’ll check out Steel Fixture.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the paper as well! We will be moving our malacology collections soon. Good to keep in mind.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 27, 2023 10:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Zhuang, Mingna <mzhuang@utep.edu>; nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Heavy trays in Viking Cabinets for mammal and bird collections?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our current Malacology cabinets have aluminum drawers – 3 lbs each, more than rigid enough for 20-30 lbs of content, and very easy to handle. Steel Fixture Inc. in Topeka, KS, make them for us. See:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Heavy trays in Viking Cabinets for mammal and bird collections?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Hi all, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Does anyone use Viking cabinets for their mammal and bird study skin collections? We were just sent a sample tray (23lbs for a slightly longer than standard Lane science style cabinet tray) and it’s just so heavy.
I really worry that if a student (or even me!) were to hold the tray, with specimens in them on a step stool that they would drop the tray or injure themselves. It would especially be an issue if they’re trying to move the tray into/out of the cabinet when
having to line up the tray edges. We were planning to get full size cabinets as our room for a taxidermy collections is really pressed for space. We were told that Spacesaver does not make lighter trays anymore so that they can accommodate more collections,
but these heavy trays seem really unfeasible for researchers and staff that take whole trays out. I can see how these might be great for geology/paleo, but not sure if they really work for lighter collections that have lots of tray removal/reorganization.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">If you are using these trays in full size cabinets, are you changing your protocols with regards to specimen removal? Another thing we’ve thought of is to get the Viking cabinets and then buy our trays somewhere
else to get lighter ones. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Vicky (Mingna) Zhuang PhD.<br>
Biodiversity Collections Manager<br>
UTEP Biodiversity Collections<br>
B209 Biology Building<br>
University of Texas at El Paso<br>
500 W University Avenue<br>
El Paso, TX 79968<br>
phone: 915-747-5479<br>
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