[Boatanchors] Desk Console Project

Nick England navy.radio at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 16:23:06 EDT 2020


Richard’s mention of rear clearance for cables is worth emphasizing. If you
have a tilted piece of equipment, the rear connectors will be tilted down
toward the desk surface, so you need to make sure that is taken into
account when you figure how far the front will be above the horizontal desk
surface.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 2:22 PM Keith Densmore <ve3gem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings All,
> I have decided to embark on a project to build (or have someone build) a
> wooded desk console to hold rack gear (19 inch). Some of the gear has a
> depth of 20 inches or so (RA-17), so that would be the depth. Height of
> each module would also be about 20 inches as well.  The front of the module
> would have a slightly back sloping front.
> I have the desk but need to build the console part. I was thinking as
> building them individually, 3 or 4 in total.
> A picture included a metal console--sort of what the finished product would
> emulate.
> Question--does anyone know of some kind of plan to accomplish this? Ideas?
>
> Thanks all,
> Keith ve3gem
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