MOTM

Are you going to do the wood work yourself, Dave?  If so, where did you find 12" wide 3/4" walnut and how much did it cost you?  I still have hopes of getting some 100 year old cypress for my cases, but if my supplier doesn't come through I would like to find some nice wood like you're talking about.

Chris Parker

>>> "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...> 10/26/99 09:37AM >>>
From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>

OK, here's what I'm thinking currently.

Look at an old Moog 55 cabinet. It is 3/4" thick, but the modules are inset
into the front edge such that it only appears about 1/4" - 3/8" thick on the
sides and top, as viewed from the front. I like this look and intend to
replicate it.

Rails would be left unbent, but angled cuts made at top and bottom of the
cab to set them at the proper angle. At the bottom, you might end up turning
the rail upside down over a raised ramp because of the reduced thickness.
Center rails are either bolted to each other or to a magic bus U channel. If
you use a U channel, the rails bolt back from the edge a distance equal to
the panel widths, so that the front of the U is flush to the panels.

I'm also considering a bottom row of panels turned SIDEWAYS. I'd put output
mixers with pan, kbd CV and gate normalizing switches, power switch, inputs
for ribbon and joystick controllers, inverters, etc. - the same kinda stuff
you'd see on the bottom of a Moog cabinet. For a 24U wide cab, there would
be space for 4 full panels plus one cut down to 4U high (wide).

Cab will be walnut, about 8" deep at the top, about 12" deep at the bottom.

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JWBarlow@... [mailto:JWBarlow@...] 
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 9:37 PM
> To: motm@onelist.com 
> Subject: Re: [motm] Sloped rails
>
>
> From: JWBarlow@... 
>
> In a message dated 10/24/99 9:35:11 PM, jlarryh@... writes:
>
> >However, it sounds like two of the stooges may interested in similar
> >cabinet designs.  My lower cabinet will be 2 rows 24U wide (sloped).  My
> >top cabinet will be 1 row 24U wide (not sloped).  Each will have
> one magic
> >bus 12 X 4 multiple.
>
>
> Yes, these sound almost exactly like what I'm thinking of except for my
> sloped cabinet I'm thinking of two of your magic bus strips (one
> for each row
> of MOTM). And I'm thinking of a second single row MOTM cabinet as well.
>
> In a message dated 10/25/99 5:42:13 AM, Ken.Tkacs@... writes:
>
> >I would think it would be easier (cheaper) to simply connect the
> two rails
> >to a wedge, no? The rails I bought have mounting flanges that go
> back almost
> >2", which is pretty deep. Even a few wooden wedges spaced along
> the length
> >should do it.
>
>
> Interesting idea! Wedges might not be as sturdy as I'd like --
> another idea
> is to bend some small corner braces (the 3/4" to 1" ones) which seem to
> retain their strength even after being bent. I liked Larry's
> routing option
> too, though I think you'd notice the top edge being thinner than
> the sides of
> the cabinet.
>
> No thoughts on attaching rails to the sides of the cabinet I guess.
> JB
>
> >