Rackmounting non-rackmount kit

[ojc123]

I have a few bits of non rackmount kit eg cassette player which I would like to put into a rack for tidiness. I've searched and I can only find shelves which would do if I could fix the player in position somehow. Is there a standard way to fix this type of equipment into racks or do I have to construct a kludge of my own? I have tried the search function but I'm obviously not searching for the right thing.

[osal]

I have strapped it onto the shelfs in the past

[Brian]

Canford Universal Rackmount Kit.

 

[EDIT]

 

Bryant Universal Rack Mount Unit.

[CARWYN]

http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/music...sp?id=4901-5952

 

The link above you might find handy but you have to either screw these to the units or super glue them.

what I have done is screw and superglue them to the units then fix them into a rack

[ojc123]

Thanks for the quick replies. Looks like exactly what I need.

[Andrew C]

Or, if you feel adventurous a bit of 30/40mm angle ali can be turned into ears to screw onto your kit

[bruce]

Self-adhesive velcro strips can come in useful here - either to stick the unit to the shelf, or in some cases you can do away with the shelf entirely and just stick the unit to whatever's below...

[back_ache]

I've found rack trays a bit useful for this.

 

for example I unscrewed the feet of my cd player then used the screws and their mounting holes to fix the cd to the tray

[KevinE]

I unscrewed the feet of my cd player then used the screws and their mounting holes to fix the cd to the tray

 

Yes, I also find this the most satisfactory way, especially as most non-rackmount seperates these days have those circular feet held on through a single tapped screw hole. Mark and drill the rack shelf accurately and if necessary substitute longer screws where the feet went, checking of course that they only penetrate the unit as far as the original ones did. We dont want to screw right through the mains transformer do we!

 

Don't do what I saw once which was a CD player glued into a rack shelf, it came in for repair and levering it out of the shelf so I could gain access to the innards was more difficult than actually repairing the thing.

[johndenim]

Or, if you feel adventurous a bit of 30/40mm angle ali can be turned into ears to screw onto your kit

 

I did this to my domestic MD players a long time ago.

Still holding in there! :D

[ojc123]

Thanks for the DIY solutions. I'll see what my friendly metalworker thinks. I know my limits.

[dbuckley]

Some Denon stuff is just the right width to pop into a rack, and has the case held on with two screws per side.

 

These are easy to fit to a rack shelf with just drilling a few holes.

 

In my old CD / cassette rack box (still occasionally dragged out for "that" kind of show) I used rack shelves that came in three pieces, but discarded the bottom, just keeping the sides, and they are what I drilled for the side screws.

[ojc123]

I went with the shelf and velcro option because we had a shelf and it seemed cheap, flexible and easy. It works very well. Thanks to all.

[Sound In Gloucestershire]

in the past ive used a big lump of foam , if I didnt have anything to hand (this only works if theres something above it of course)