Much of the Malaysian Agilent gear uses this style of case with a wraparound bumper in place of the system II feet and feet are removed when gear is rack mounted.
One of my best surplus buys ever was a huge crate of mixed mounting hardware feet / rack flanges etc I've been using that box o stuff for 10 years Content by Scott Typos by Siri > On Dec 14, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > The desktop version (with handle) used the rubber “bumper” wrap around for > feet. The bumpers got pulled when they were rack mounted. The ones that got > put back on may or may not be identical to the originals. That’s a very > normal part of the surplus process. The 100% correct HP original case on the > box as HP built it did not use the clip on feet. > > The reason for this is pretty simple. The Z3801 / Z3805 came before the > “instrument” versions of the same products. The internal case structure is > same/ same. The instrument simply gets a gray sheet metal jacket that fits > around the Z38xx box. That’s the way HP designed it. Since its just a jacket, > it gets feet as part of the bumpers. Most of these (likely 99%) got rack > mounted and the feet / bumpers were tossed. I have a *lot* of very legit > surplus HP gear that did not come with feet or bumpers. > > Bob > >> On Dec 14, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 14 December 2014 at 19:32, Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> There are not the usual 3 holes underneath where feet go. >>> >>> I understand that they are different. The problem is the same though. >>> Pulling a box in and out of a rack with feet or bumpers on it is a pain. >>> They often get “lost” early in the instrument’s life. Often it’s a standard >>> process on all gear as it comes into the facility. All of the un-needed >>> bits and pieces go into a big pile. When the feet (or whatever) are found >>> later in life they may or may not be re-installed correctly. They might not >>> even be the ones that came with the instrument. >>> >>> Bob >> >> I am not sure if you are following me. On most (all??) HP kit I have >> seen, there are 3 holes at each corner of the bottom, where is >> possible to fit feet if one is going to use it on a desktop, rather >> than a rack. This unit does not have those holes, so it would be >> impossible to fit the usual HP feet on it. >> >> Looking around, I have 15 bits of HP kit, all of which have holes in >> the corner for feet. But this 58503A, with the Chinese box, does not >> have the holes. I don't know whether the 85053A is supposed to have >> them, or whether this is just a flaw in the design of the counterfeit. >> >> Dave >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
