[NHCOLL-L:2795] RE: bolting down museum cases

[Jean-Marc Gagnon]

This has not been the case for us at CMN, except for cabinets on compactor.
In this case, we use metal bars that run along the top of the cabinets
(vertical) and are anchored to the compactor base (or floor in your case) by
vertical bars. Making all of this hardware removable provides relatively
easy access to the cabinets if you need to move them, and avoid drilling
through the cabinets.
Let me know if you want pictures of our setup.

Jean-Marc

Jean-Marc Gagnon, Ph.D.
Chief Collection Manager / Gestionnaire en chef
Invertebrate Collections (and Interim for Vertebrates) / Collections des
invertébrés (et vertébrés par intérim)
Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature
P.O. Box 3443, Station D / Boîte postale 3443, Succ. D
Ottawa, Ontario
CANADA   K1P 6P4
 
Tel.: 613-364-4066
Fax / Télécopieur:  613-364-4027
e-mail / courriel: jmgagnon at mus-nature.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Shugart [mailto:gwshugart at hotmail.com] 
Sent: August 22, 2005 10:35 PM
To: nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:2793] bolting down museum cases

Hi all:  Architects are telling us that our museum cases, stacked two high 
(VACs and wooden 2x4x4 ft), need to be bolted to the floor as per building 
code.  Just wondering if anyone has been required to bolt cases to the 
floor?  And if not, did you have to deal with building  codes?  This is in 
new construction.

Gary Shugart
Collections Manager
Slater Museum of Natural History
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA 98416
253 879-3356 (museum)
gshugart at ups.edu, gwshugart at hotmail.com 
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