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> On Dec 14, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Scott McGrath <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 Somewhere there’s a building full of gear all of which is missing it’s feet and bumpers … You are lucky to have found that box. In most cases they get tossed out with the trash. The same is true of many of the fancy i/o cables, they get put into the copper recycle pile and are gone… Bob > > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
