[R-390] Installing a R390

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

Rack rails are still in use by the broadcast industry and others. A Google 
search for rack rail turns up a number of rails. They are a little 
expensive, but available. The broadcast industry uses these rail to hold 
professional monitors ina a rack as well as recording decks and other 
things. The R-390A is light compared to some of this.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV
Acting Chief Engineer WCIV TV

At 07:47 AM 06/11/06, David C. Hallam wrote:
>BUD the chassis and cabinet people used to make rails that bolted to the
>sides of a rack cabinet and carried the weight of a heavy unit like a R-390.
>I have several pairs in my cabinet.  Sadly, they no longer make them.  I
>guess they assumed radios were no longer heavy,
>
>David
>KC2JD
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of John Lawson
>Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 12:59 AM
>To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [R-390] Installing a R390
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>On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Buzz wrote:
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> > http://webpages.charter.net/muttman/Inst_R390.jpg
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>    Oh NO!!   What on earth were you THINKING!!!
>
>    Everyone, but EVERYONE knows that, when using a forklift to rack a 390,
>you should always wrap (freshly washed) gym socks around the forks - to
>keep from scratching your Baby...!
>
>      ;}
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>    Seriously, though - not bad, if you can then get the rack in/out of the
>shack easily after the Radios (and the spectrum analyzer) are mounted.
>
>    Some folks advocate the use of side-bars made of aluminum or iron angle
>- or using a rack with rear rails to keep the entire wieght of the 390
>from hanging on the front panel - although I have no direct evidence that
>this is an acute problem - and my previous 390s lived in a rack with only
>4 screws in each one - they were (apparently) happy for years.
>
>    My two rigs (390 and 390A) currently sit on the desk, but they, and the
>rest of my gear, are destined for racking - so I'll soon face this exact
>scenario - twice, plus the R-388, the WWV reciever, the smaller
>transmitters, the Mdo Monitor, the AM scope, and a stack of RTTY
>Apparatus.
>
>
>    Cheers
>
>John  KB6SCO
>Carson City DM09fg
>80M AM fone / 3880 Mhtz
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