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Please voice your opinion for "big honkin' rack rail" lengths for wood
cases.

1 26U length recorded. Any other preferences?

The rail are currently planned as simple 'L' brackets with:

a) the same tapped holes/spacing as the 19A but....
b) the other "leg" of the rail is 0.75" wide with counterbored holes to
accept wood screws
The holes on this side are about 6 inches apart.

I ∗know∗ this does not address what to do if you want 2 or more "butt-ended"
rows
on top of each other. One solution is a "semi-floating" rail, 1.00" high
with 2 parallel
rows of tapped holes. One the ends, there is a 90 degree bent flange with
say 4 counterbored
holes for wood screws. This allows the bottom panel holes of "Row A" and the
top panel holes of
"Row B" to screw into ∗something∗ that is supported on the ends (since the
ends screw into the
left/right sides of the case).

Also, these will be "cut in half" so I can ship them without sending 40"
long torpedos
through the mail system, and then postal employees use them for pole
vaulting practice.

I am assuming a 2 row by 'N' length (N to be beat to death) is what people
are looking for.

Now, ∗sloping∗ a la Moog 35/55 is another issue! I seriously doubt I can
provide angles bent other
than 30/45/60/90 (I think the Moog slope is about 10 degrees). Moog used
∗wood∗ rails, which
with any dado machine you can just "dail in" the bevel slope. Bending 11ga
iron bars is a different
animal!!

Really, how often do you plan to move around/swap modules in the big honkin'
case?

From my end: I have to watch stuff like maximum UPS/USPS/FedX dimensions!
Unless you
want to pay $120 for Yellow Freight.

I ∗think∗ a "road case" like 18U wide by 2 rows tall by 9" deep is
'UPS-able' in a double box. Need
to check. Power supply in rear, you have room for 18 2U wide modules. About
the size of my Fender
Super Reverb amp!!


Paul S.