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3-space racks?

I been thinking maybe I should just get a 2-space rack and put it on the floor, put the cabs on top of that and just use pedals for pre-amp duties and have nothing on top of my cabs. Any reason why that would be a bad idea? Setting ~70 pounds of cabs on top of a 2-space rack?

Sounds good to me. I mean, hey, what could go wrong?

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Woohoo! It's here! Looks really good too.
 

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Nice rack. ;)

My setup is a 3 space rack containing an RMX1450 and a tuner, then a 2 space rack containing a Furman Power source and my BBE preamp. The QSC is heavy by itself!

Push comes to shove, I could just put the BBE in with the QSC.

I buy used Anvil racks off Craigslist. Get 'em for a decent deal. Mostly 2 space racks iut there, and then 6 and 8 space. 4's are less common to find used, and finding a deep 3 - I had to drive almost an hour to pick it up. Sometimes its just easier to buy a new one and get it shipped to your door. :)
 
I buy all my cases, cables, other stuff from audiopile. Mark/Liz are great to deal with and the EWI is honestly unbeatable value for the price.
Highly recommend them..
 
Nice enough, tho, personally, I don't care for twistlocks that stay on the main body of the rack. I've had trouble with those being noisy while playing. I prefer the twistlocks on the rack lids.
ymmv.
I agree with you in theory, though my own 3U is an cheap Gator with twist-locks on the body (I had store credit and it was the only shallow 3U they had), and I worried about that, but it has never actually rattled on me, despite going up to some pretty insane volume levels.