GB> (Fwd) 19 inch rack standard?

[Jan Axing]

The funny thing is that the 19" standard is common in most of Europe.
I can grab an SP-600 and install it in a Swedish rack without problem.
Only difference is the M6 bolts, metric treads.

Jan, SM5GNN

Roberta J. Barmore wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>    The 19" wide rack panel does indeed come from The Phone Company, as
> near as I can find out, and dates back to the late '20s at least.  The odd
> increments of height (1.75" and multiples) is a mystery and a deeper one
> than it might seem at first sight, as the plainest standard telephone-type
> rackmounting patch panels are *not* built in heights evenly divisible by
> 1.75"!  (In the BC biz, we used "jack mats," false fronts that built out
> the height to a standard increment, and nowadays, they simply make the
> panels in standard dimensions).
etc...

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