EIA 19" rack dimensions

Bob

If you decide not to do your own rails. This will give you an idea of cost.

Bob

Anyone have the specifications for a 19 inch EIA equipment rack? A handy URL will do.

Specifically, I need the dimensions (hole spacing, etc.) for the side rails. I'm building a custom rack and I'm considering drilling and tapping my own.

On Apr 10, 11:35=EF=BF=BDpm, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrot= e:

Paul,

There are a few different "standard" spacings, so be aware of that. I know of at least (3).

FWIW, nothing ever seems to fit right in the racks that have constant hole-to-hole spacings...

Also, some open-frame relay racks use 10-32 screws, while others use

With all the phone companies going belly-up (and cellular companies dismantleing their analog networks), there ought to be lots of racks out there for little or no $$. ?

-mpm

Chatsworth Products makes more racks than you can shake a stick at.

Bob

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Also, Newton Instrument. See:

IIRC the standard is EIA 310, Rev C may have been the last inch size, and rev D the Metric one.

Thanks for all the links.

I think I'll do my own rails, drilled to accept captive nuts. No worries about tapping, thread stripping, oddball sizes, etc. I might go with commercial rails if I can find some that will look good in a custom cabinet. Maybe anodized black.

Do as you please. The specification in found as EIA/TIA-310.

Is OS/2 still available? Is it still supported? I liked it a lot last time i used it.

Standard production for all the properties you have asked for so far. Search engines are your friend.

You can get it as EComStation from Serenity Systems. IBM stopped supporting it at the end of 2006. I use it a fair amount still--to this day, not a single piece of OS/2 malware has been found. You can surf like Conan the Barbarian. ;)

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

OS/2 still plauges my programming life. It can be had, but wont run on modern hardware. It can be emulated. I is susceptable to malware. The sooner it goes away the better.

Of course it's _susceptible_ to malware, it's just that no one has ever written any! And I'm running it on reasonably recent hardware myself.

If that's the worst plague you have to deal with, feel grateful.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs