Sigh, I feel like a broken record but the right answer for this is to use
wood for the structural support and a simple flat rail attached to it for
mounting modules. The current rails are fantastic for rack mounting where
the slop in the cabinet can be tolerated by the mechanics of the side rails
but it becomes harder when you try to mount those rails where you have
tighter tolerances.
I'm not a mechanical engineer but I really like simple solutions to
mechanical problems.
Eric
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JWBarlow@... [mailto:JWBarlow@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:10 PM
> To: motm@onelist.com
> Subject: RE: [motm] Rails & Cabinets
>
>
> From: JWBarlow@...
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Yes, the MOTM rails are great -- very sturdy. The only
> problem I see would be
> getting the "ears" in the vice at the exact distance to bend
> for a perfect
> width rail (especially if one were to do this repeatedly for
> building several
> cabinets at once, but you could set up a jig -- a stop on
> your vice -- to
> facilitate this). A similar idea would be to just cut the
> ears off, but they
> seem perfect for mounting to the sides considering they are
> bent in the wrong
> direction.
>
> JB
>
> In a message dated 2/2/2000 7:26:26 AM, Ken.Tkacs@... writes:
>
> >Interesting! Would this work? And be sturdy? I haven't
> bought any of the
> >current MOTM horizontal rails because I never intended to
> use a store-bought
> >rack. But if you think this would work for my application,
> maybe I should
> >look into a set for experimentation...?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From: JWBarlow@... [mailto:JWBarlow@...]
> >
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 9:38 PM
> >
> > To: motm@onelist.com
> >
> > Subject: Re: [motm] Rails & Cabinets
>
> > Let me suggest putting the standard MOTM rack rails in a
> >vice and bending the ears back by 90 degrees so that those
> could be used
> >as
> >a way to mount the rails against the sides of the cabinet.
> This seems like
> >a
> >perfect solution to me.
>
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