Rackmount kit for mesa walkabout head

ItalianMetal · #1 04-07-2010, 01:42 AM

Hi, this is my first thread on this beautiful forum, so sorry for my bad English

I'm an Italian Bass Player, I have a walkabout scout combo (1x12). In this period I'm using the head with others cabs, so I take off the head from the cabs and I'd like to put it into an hard case. The black hard case made by Mesa in Italy costs 560 Euros (!!!), too much IMHO, so I want to buy the rackmount kit. Unfortunately I don't find those rack ears in Italy and in European stores I know, can you help me showing me a link about an USA web store that sell the rackmount kit for Walkabout?
Another two question:
To assembly rack ears do I have to open the amps or can I mount them from the outside?
Do you think it will be sufficent to use a 2U rack cases or I need a 3U rack cases? I'm afraid about the colling of the head....
Thank you

lomo · #2 04-07-2010, 05:22 AM

You can likely get it directly from mesaboogie.com

ItalianMetal · #3 04-07-2010, 06:51 AM

I searched on mesaboogie.com but the rackmount kit is no more avaliable in their "Mesa Store". I asked also to Italian dealer... they told me that these accessories are not regularly distribuited in Italy (!!!)

RickenBoogie · #4 04-07-2010, 05:46 PM

Bummer, but your English is perfectly fine. Maybe you could find some other type of hard case to transport it in. I put mine in my gig bag, (on top) when traveling. Good luck to you, it's an awesome amp.

bobalu · #5 04-07-2010, 05:51 PM

Did you try e-bay?

ItalianMetal · #6 04-08-2010, 01:19 AM

RickenBoogie thank you! As you can imagine Walkabout amps are not much spread in my country, I Join in an Italian bass-player forum (megabass forum ) and there are just 3-4 walkabout owners, it's good for me having read so many pages written by american users. I'm very satisfied of my little but powerful amp

bobalu: yes I tried, nothing. I thought that a lot of american Musical Instruments stores had this rack mount kit... I see that it's not so simple to find

Widdershins · #7 04-08-2010, 07:58 AM

This might not be feasible for you, but have you thought of having someone make you a set?

They are pretty "low-tech" pieces of equipment... two bent pieces of metal.

All you would need would be the measurements of the dimensions and location of the holes.

ItalianMetal · #8 04-08-2010, 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Widdershins

This might not be feasible for you, but have you thought of having someone make you a set?

They are pretty "low-tech" pieces of equipment... two bent pieces of metal.

All you would need would be the measurements of the dimensions and location of the holes.

this could be a good Idea, I can see the location of the holes from the walkabout, the dimension of rack ears can be calculated, the width of the head is 12", a rack standard is 19", so both ears should be 3,5". If I don't find the rackmount kit I can look for someone who can build it.

kobass · #9 04-08-2010, 09:11 AM

You may want to contact Bass Central. www.basscentral.com They are an authorized Mesa dealer here in the US and they will ship overseas. They also have a sponsored forum here...

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f175/

ItalianMetal · #10 06-23-2010, 02:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kobass

You may want to contact Bass Central. www.basscentral.com They are an authorized Mesa dealer here in the US and they will ship overseas. They also have a sponsored forum here...

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=175

Bass central answered that they can't ship overseas mesa boogie products. Building those pieces of metal is expensive, I tried to ask... it's incredibile how hard is finding this simple accessory!