[R-390] Handles

[JRFKE5RI at aol.com]

I was a CTM2 back in '63.  If you don't  know what that means, don't ask.  
I was 65 inches tall and I weighed 150  pounds.  I could mount an R390A  in 
a rack by myself!  No easy  task unless you knew "the trick".  Place two 
mounting screws in the first  hole beneath the panel on each side.  Leave them 
sticking out about 3/8  inch.  Heft the receiver into the rack and place the 
bottom lip of the  panel on the protruding screws.  Then using one hand, 
push the top of the  panel back until it is flush with the rack and lifting 
slightly to assure  alignment, start the first mounting screw in either top 
corner.  Then  follow with the second screw.  You have to hold the bottom from 
swinging  out.  Now replace the bottom screws one at a time.  If you can't 
do  that, you ain't quantified.  If there was no clearance for the temporary 
 support screws because of another piece of equipment below the receiver, 
you had  to use the panel edge of the lower equipment as the support.  Quite 
a bit  trickier, I can assure you.

All of this would have been impossible with  straight handles.

John Felton
KE5RI
Kami Seya, Japan 1962-1964