HP/Agilent half width gear rack mounted. Middle bracket?

[EE4all]

Ok, I have a lot of HP and Agilent gear rack mounted. Some of it is half width, so I have a piece of gear on the left side, and another on the right. I have always assumed HP had a center piece that just keyed into the other gear piece to hold them together, but never had seen one or found it with a search. Recently, I found a few of these on an old HP piece of test gear. I assume this is it. Where can I find more? What the heck did they call it, or is the part number?

[themadhippy]

Not what your looking for,but apart from manufacturer specific,you can get universal joiners for example  https://www.canford.co.uk/Products/2026151/45-3360_CANFORD-JOINING-PLATE-For-half-rack-width-panel-1U

[EE4all]

Right, that one won't help.

It's amazing that one can find rack mount flanges galore on  eBay for far left and right, but not these center joining brackets.

[EE4all]

Ok, after a bit of extra searching, I did figure this out.

It's called a lock link kit. The part number is  5061-9694.

[TheSteve]

I get the feeling users ran without any center lock 99% of the time.

[EE4all]

The part number on JUST the front horizontal lock link, as I posted a picture for, is 0050-2166.

[EE4all]

Here is the full kit parts list. Hopefully this saves someone else some time if they ever want one of these parts.

[EE4all]

And here are the instructions.