Not sure which topic this comes under. Maybe off topic.
Maybe someone should have taken a patent on equipment rubber banding.LOL Seems to have taken a long time for industry to catch on.
Maybe there was too much money to be made in more expensive solutions.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/02 ... ber_bands/
Edit: Picture of rack here: http://www.greenplatformcorp.com/product_data.htm