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Re: flat rails?

2000-08-22 by Dave Bradley

To expand:

If you are building a wood "Moog modular" looking cabinet, you build 
inset wooden cross pieces at the top and bottom, and in the middle if 
your cab is more than 1 module tall. Now you need drilled and tapped 
metal rails to screw modules in to. The angled rail kits sold for 
rack mounting won't do. The flat rails are 12U long as opposed to 10U 
for rack mounting. They mount flush on the front of the wood cross 
pieces using wood screws.

They aren't available yet, still caught in the machine shop backlog.

Dave

--- In motm@egroups.com, Dave Hylander <david@h...> wrote:
> The flat rails are alu 1/8" x 1/2" flat stock, drilled and tapped 8-
32 on 1U
> panel mounting centers and are 12U long.  They are additionally 
drilled and
> countersunk for #6 woodscrews to attatch to wooden cabinets. They 
work great
> (I'm using them, made my own) if you are making your own wooden 
cabinets.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Jeffrey Pontius wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I'm going to broadcast my lack of knowledge here.  What 
are "flat
> > rails" that I've been reading in some recent messages?
> >
> > TIA, Jeff
> >
> >

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