Will this thing really hold my MKS-70?

[AnalogGuy]

Originally Posted by CfNorENa

Apologies in advance for the potentially idiotic question, but I'm wondering if this piece . . .



. . . will really be able to hold my Roland MKS-70 (which is BIG and HEAVY). I'd really love to move it off of my desk and onto the crossbar of my Z stand, but I have my doubts about the viability of this solution. All of my racked gear has always been on a table top, and resting on other pieces. Do the rackmounts really support a large unit that would be sticking out the end like this?

If you mean about putting heavy racksynth into rack without support beneath... think it will not.

I have found pretty good and safe way to find it out. Grab the racksynth by both hands from the rack ears only and try to hold it horizontally in air, as in the rack shelf. If you start feeling that you can't hold it at all, then it is too heavy for without support. You see, if it's too heavy, then it will bend the rack ears and could even damage the internal electronics.

If you can hold racksynth by rack ears, then there will be no problems. Something like Roland JV-2080 I used to keep without support but heavy analog stuff like MKS-70, I really doubt it could hold it.

[CfNorENa]

Originally Posted by AnalogGuy

You see, if it's too heavy, then it will bend the rack ears and could even damage the internal electronics.

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I'll find a different solution. Thanks.

[Teknobeam]

that thing looks like it's meant to slip onto something else. however... Don't worry about rack ears bending from being racked into a standard rack. the ears are designed to handle it. and they are bolted to structural members inside the device. I have a vey heavy MKS80, and A Korg EX8000 both of which are very deep representing a huge cantilever force on the rack ears. No problem. consider this.. older pro adui power amplifiers weigh so much more than an MKS70 and they are bolted into racks all over the planet.

[JSt0rm]

Originally Posted by AnalogGuy

If you mean about putting heavy racksynth into rack without support beneath... think it will not.

I have found pretty good and safe way to find it out. Grab the racksynth by both hands from the rack ears only and try to hold it horizontally in air, as in the rack shelf. If you start feeling that you can't hold it at all, then it is too heavy for without support. You see, if it's too heavy, then it will bend the rack ears and could even damage the internal electronics.

If you can hold racksynth by rack ears, then there will be no problems. Something like Roland JV-2080 I used to keep without support but heavy analog stuff like MKS-70, I really doubt it could hold it.

dude. If something has rack ears you can rack it.

[AnalogGuy]

Originally Posted by JSt0rm

dude. If something has rack ears you can rack it.

Yeah, but only if all racks are stacked to each other. They are not meant to let be without support. I have seen rack units to have bent rack ears because of that. The most solid rack things could handle it very well, but how about after a year or two? The gravity does its job eventually.

[joonebug]

I can confirm to you that the MKS-70 is pretty heavy for that rack as I have that same synth and the QuikLok ZWS71L Keyboard Workstation set. I went the Ikea side table solutions instead as discuss around here in this forum.

[golden beers]

Originally Posted by JSt0rm

dude. If something has rack ears you can rack it.

+1

[nebelfrau]

That thing doesn't even look like it'd hold my SQ-R which I am confident I could frisbee down the street wih relative ease.

Unless it was on the bottom...

[JSt0rm]

Originally Posted by AnalogGuy

Yeah, but only if all racks are stacked to each other. They are not meant to let be without support. I have seen rack units to have bent rack ears because of that. The most solid rack things could handle it very well, but how about after a year or two? The gravity does its job eventually.

Yes I agree rack ears should only need to support its own self. If you pile on a bunch of stuff to 1 thing that's racked I can see that being a problem. I don't think the op is asking to do that though.

[CfNorENa]

Interesting discussion. Maybe my original question wasn't so idiotic after all (but actually, it's a catch-22: it should be obvious either that I CAN do it or I CAN'T, and I still don't know which )

This is what I want to do. Connect that rack unit (the QuikLok ZM-93) to the crossbar of my QuikLok Z stand (where it's designed to go). Then place the MKS-70 in that rack, all by itself, with no support beneath, and nothing else on top of it. So it will be sticking way out (not only is it heavy, but it's very deep), relying entirely for its support on the rack ears.

Is that gonna work??

[m.o]

Get a 1U rack shelf and mount it upside down beneath the mks-70?