[R-390] Handles

[Bill Hawkins]

Roberta Barmore worked at a TV transmitter site and contributed
good things to the Glowbugs list, until the economy turned south.

Her way to mount something heavy with nothing right under it was
to run a couple of screws in from the back so's they'd reach through
the lower rack mount holes. Heave the gear into the rack and hold it
on the reversed screws while you put in the other screws normally.

Then back out the reversed screws and put them in from the front.
You do have to lift it a bit when you start so it isn't sitting on
the reversed screws. Makes 'em real hard to back out.

Result - no 18" spaced gouge marks.

Bill Hawkins

-----Original Message-----
From: 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>


>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
>