[R-390] Handles

[Cecil Acuff]

Dang you are the guy that put all those perfectly aligned, 19" spaced gouge 
marks in the bottom edge of about half the 390A's I have....:-)

Good idea though...

Cecil
K5DL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JRFKE5RI at aol.com>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:04 PM
Subject: [R-390] Handles


>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
>
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