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The Koshland Museum in Washington has several of these, and they should be able to advise you.

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Subject: Durability of moving/sliding flat screens.

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Hi all,

I’m thinking about an interactive that would have computer flat screen monitors, mounted flat/horizontally, that move in a linear path on a rail system. Ideally the monitors could not be slammed into the ends of track.

I was wondering if anyone has experience with the failure rate of the monitor, and if known, what the causes of failure were (internal components vibrating free, being smashed/crashed in to the end of the rails, other…)?

Thank you for any help you can give.
-Peter Ford

Technical Designer
Museum of Science, Boston

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