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Middle Atlantic Side Panels, 40 RU, 36"D, GRK RacksEnhance the protection, appearance, and organization of your GRK rack system with the Middle Atlantic Side Panels. Specifically designed for 40 RU GRK enclosures, these panels provide a clean, professional edge to your setup while safeguarding equipment from dust, knocks, and cable clutter. Built to pair with the GRK 40 36LRD and GRK 40 36HLRD models, the panels deliver a seamless integration that preserves the sleek lines and modular versatility
Enhance the protection, appearance, and organization of your GRK rack system with the Middle Atlantic Side Panels. Specifically designed for 40 RU GRK enclosures, these panels provide a clean, professional edge to your setup while safeguarding equipment from dust, knocks, and cable clutter. Built to pair with the GRK-40-36LRD and GRK-40-36HLRD models, the panels deliver a seamless integration that preserves the sleek lines and modular versatility Middle Atlantic is known for. Whether you’re outfitting a broadcast studio, post-production suite, or corporate AV room, these panels offer a durable, reliable solution to finish your GRK rack configuration with a polished, finished look.
- Perfect fit for 40 RU GRK enclosures — These side panels are precision-manufactured to align flawlessly with GRK-40-36LRD and GRK-40-36HLRD enclosures. The result is a seamless, factory-installed appearance that enhances professional imaging in client-ready environments. Expect precise hole alignment, clean edges, and an overall fit that reduces installation time while delivering a high-end, built-in look.
- Durable construction designed for professional environments — Built from heavy-duty materials with a robust finish, these panels withstand daily wear in studios, control rooms, classrooms, and data-forward spaces. The rugged construction resists impacts, scratches, and general congestion that can accompany frequent access to equipment. A battle-tested finish preserves aesthetics even after years of use, helping maintain resale value and appearance.
- Dust protection and improved cabinet integrity — By enclosing the sides of the GRK cabinet, the panels help minimize dust intrusion and reduce exposure to internal cabling and components. This protective barrier contributes to longer life for sensitive equipment, lowers cleaning frequency, and supports cleaner airflow within the enclosure—an important factor in maintaining performance over time.
- Optimized 36" depth for diverse gear stacks — The 36-inch depth is chosen to accommodate a wide range of rack-mount equipment, from servers and audio processors to power distribution and cooling hardware. The side panels maintain a compact footprint while offering ample space for cable paths and component access. This dimension helps preserve a tidy, professional silhouette without sacrificing accessibility or airflow considerations.
- Easy integration with existing GRK systems — Designed to work in harmony with Middle Atlantic’s GRK series, the panels install alongside minimal fuss using standard rack hardware. They’re a practical upgrade for expanding or refreshing an existing GRK installation, enabling quick reconfigurations as equipment needs evolve. The result is a modular, scalable solution that helps you keep pace with changing AV and IT demands.
Technical Details of Middle Atlantic Side Panels for GRK Racks
- Compatibility: Fits GRK-40-36LRD and GRK-40-36HLRD models.
- RUs covered: 40 RU cabinet footprint with side panels designed to match the enclosure’s dimensions.
- Depth: 36 inches (36" depth) to accommodate deep equipment stacks.
- Material and finish: Heavy-duty steel construction with a durable powder-coated finish suitable for professional environments.
- Includes: Pair of side panels.
How to install Middle Atlantic Side Panels for GRK Racks
Installing the Side Panels is a straightforward process that preserves the integrity and aesthetics of your GRK enclosure. Follow these steps to achieve a clean, secure fit that aligns with factory specifications and supports long-term performance.
- Prepare your workspace — Clear the area around the GRK enclosure and verify you have the correct panels for your model. Ensure you have the appropriate mounting hardware compatible with your GRK frame to attach the panels securely.
- Align the panels with the enclosure — Position each side panel so that mounting holes on the panel align with the corresponding holes and mounting points on the GRK enclosure’s frame. Take care to ensure both panels mirror one another for a balanced, symmetrical appearance.
- Attach the panels — Using the same rack screws or fasteners that are used on other GRK components, secure each panel to the chassis. Tighten evenly and progressively to avoid misalignment or warping. Do not overtighten, as excessive force can strip threads or distort the panel.
- Check alignment and clearance — After securing, verify that the panels sit flush with the enclosure edges and that there is sufficient clearance for cables and any future accessories. Ensure hinges, if present, move freely and that there are no interference with doors or removable panels.
- Finalize and test airflow — With panels in place, perform a quick check of the enclosure’s ventilation and access to rear equipment. If your setup includes fans or intake paths, confirm that panel placement does not obstruct critical airflow paths and adjust cable routing as needed for optimal cooling.
Frequently asked questions
Q: What models are compatible with these side panels?
A: The panels are designed to fit Middle Atlantic GRK enclosures specifically models GRK-40-36LRD and GRK-40-36HLRD. They provide a precise fit for those configurations and are not advertised for universal use with all GRK models. If you have a different GRK configuration, verify compatibility before purchase.
Q: Do the side panels come as a pair?
A: Yes. This product is sold as a pair of side panels, suitable for enclosing both sides of the 40 RU GRK enclosure to achieve a finished, professional look and protective barrier against dust and incidental impacts.
Q: Do these panels affect ventilation?
A: The side panels are designed to protect and finish the enclosure, while maintaining access to the internal layout. They do contribute to reducing dust entry and can influence airflow around the sides. Ensure your overall cooling plan accounts for panel placement, especially in high-heat environments, and keep intake and exhaust paths clear for optimal performance.
Q: What material and finish are used?
A: The panels are constructed from durable steel with a powder-coated finish appropriate for professional AV and data environments. The finish is chosen to resist scratches and maintain a clean appearance even with frequent access to the rack.
Q: How do I know I’m buying legitimate Middle Atlantic components?
A: These side panels are manufactured as part of the GRK family of racks, intended to pair with GRK-40-36LRD and GRK-40-36HLRD enclosures. For best results, use product images and model numbers to confirm compatibility, and purchase through authorized distributors to ensure genuine parts and warranty support.
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★★★★★ 5
Inspiring analysis of economic history
Format: Paperback
Polanyi presents economic history through an analysis of the "utopian" catastrophy of the self-regulating market economy.
Polanyi argues that the free market economy treats the most essential elements of human society - labor, nature, and money - as if they should be exploited like commodities. When liberalism (free marketeerism) rules, then the economy dictates what is possible in human society, and these rules are intolerable because they create conditions under which humans are impoverished and disempowered.
In his final chapter he lays out the battle ground between liberalism and its alternatives, which when he was writing (1945) were socialism and fascism. Fascism refuses the dictates of economic liberalism but substitutes in its place the dictates of a state that denies individual freedom. Socialism, alternatively, holds the only promise of true freedom for the individual where economic and political rules are developed and enforced democratically for the protection of society.
While this is not an easy read because it demands a background in history, he is a fluent and persuasive writer.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2023
★★★★★ 5
This 1944 classic recounts the fatal flaws of market liberalism that led to the Great Depression and World Wars I & II
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Karl Polanyi. 1944.
In 1944, the opposing monumental classics, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek and The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, were published. From the right, Hayek argued that market liberalism led to prosperity, political liberty, and prevention of authoritarian governance. From the left, Polanyi argued that the rise of market liberalism during the industrial revolution led to intolerable hardship, inevitable unsustainable countermeasures, and finally collapse into fascism, the Great Depression, and World Wars I and II.
Since their publication during World War II, these markedly opposed ideas have now been tested by seventy years of history. For the first thirty years after the war, policies reflecting Polanyi’s ideas led to a mixed economy of government policies and regulated markets in the US, northern Europe, and elsewhere that produced robustly increased prosperity broadly shared at all income levels. For the next forty years, ascendency of Hayek’s ideas led to reduction of the role of government with attendant economic instability, rising inequality (with all economic gains going to the rich in the US), and coercive imposition of market liberalism by authoritarian governments with disastrous results throughout Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Given the adverse consequences of resurgent market liberalism, the rebuttal of its ideas in The Great Transformation is as important today as ever.
In The Great Transformation, Polanyi maintains that before the industrial revolution, markets did not play an important role in human society—they were embedded in society rather than the other way around. Goods and services were generally distributed without the motive for profit by the non-market mechanisms of reciprocity according to social relations, centralized storage with redistribution, and production for one’s own use known as householding. When present, the role of markets was peripheral and subordinate to politics, religion, and social relations.
The industrial revolution brought about an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production accompanied by catastrophic dislocations of the lives of the common people, of which poverty was merely the economic aspect. During this time, English thinkers created the theory of market liberalism, which radically reversed the previous subordination of markets to society by removing the role for government so that society was instead subordinated to self-regulating markets (without government interference).
This change required that human labor, nature, and money be turned into commodities that could be bought and sold without regard to human and social considerations. Efficient functioning of markets also required callous indifference to the social dislocation, poverty, and damage to nature that resulted and even to hunger as a motivating factor for the working class. This change from regulated to self-regulating markets that organized the whole of society on the principle of gain and profit marked a great transformation of the nature of society by the removal of democratic control of markets.
The goals of this transformation were unrealistically utopian and could never be achieved without annihilating the human and natural substance of society. Even during its installation, laissez-faire proved to be a myth. Government action was mandatory to adjust the supply of money and credit, to enforce provisions for labor and land, and to prevent political disruption. Even with this level of government activity, market liberalism still imposed unsustainable hardships on ordinary people from speculative excess, growing inequality, competition from imports, depressions, unemployment, poverty, and reduced entitlement to assistance.
By the late 1800s, these impossible pressures of the self-regulating market necessarily led to a countermovement in industrialized nations to protect their societies from the market. This countermovement included protectionism for national markets and competition for colonies to take resources from other societies. In exotic and colonial regions with the absence of protective measures unspeakable suffering resulted. Thus Polanyi characterizes market societies as having two opposing movements, referred to as a “double movement.” These two contradictory movements resulted in simultaneous struggles to expand the scope of the market because of the opportunities for some and to limit the scope of the market because of the adverse consequences for many.
These internal contradictions led to disruptive stresses and strains that were unsustainable for market societies. In the domestic economy, class conflict resulted from issues like the choice between inflation for stability of workers incomes and employment and deflation for stability of currency for investors. Market liberals from Spencer to Mises held that popular democracy was a danger to capitalism and that workers should not have the right to vote. In the international economy, relentless shocks imposed by the gold standard forced nations to consolidate around heightened national and imperial boundaries. In international politics, intensified political, military, and economic rivalries finally culminated in World War I.
By this time, the class struggle over market liberalism was at an impasse. For a critical decade, economic liberals supported authoritarian intervention in service of their deflationary policy to protect currency exchange and investment. This merely weakened the democratic forces that might otherwise have averted the fascist catastrophe. During the Great Depression, the gold standard finally collapsed, foreign debts were repudiated, capital markets and world trade dwindled away, and the global political and economic system disintegrated. In a second great transformation of society that followed, the replacements of market society by fascism, socialism, and the New Deal were similar only in discarding laissez-faire principles. The conflict between the market and the elementary requirements of an organized social life had ultimately destroyed society. World Wars I and II merely hastened its destruction.
In 1944, Polanyi appears to have regarded the utopia of market liberalism as utterly discredited. He expressed the hope that the passing of market economy could become the beginning of an era of unprecedented freedom. He noted that freedom as the absence of power and compulsion as claimed by market liberals is not possible in a complex society. The function of power is to ensure the measure of conformity which is needed for the survival of the group: its ultimate source is opinion.
Regulation both extends and restricts freedom; only the balance of freedoms lost and won is significant. The comfortable classes enjoy the freedom provided by leisure in security. They resent the suggestion to spread out income, leisure, and security to extend to others the freedom they enjoy. Obviously, those who lack security cannot enjoy the same freedom as the comfortable classes. Those who want more freedom for all need not fear that either power or planning will undermine their freedom. Regulation and control in a complex society strive to give us all the security we need to achieve freedom not only for the few, but for all.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017
★★★★★ 5
Must read for contemporary (and all) times.
Format: Paperback
This is a great book. I wonder why we were not taught this in the freshman year, or at least as a counterpoint to Econ101. It opens up the perspective to seeing culture, economics, politics, and technology in an integrated way with an emphasis on social choesion as a unifying fabric for humanity and, looking for the right rate of economic reform. Much of what we do as "development" can in fact be harmful in the long (also short) run if we are not sensitive to the premises Polanyi is alerting us to. This is not counterpoint or counterfactual thesis per se. I am a strong proponent of the market system and also realize that this system is subsumed and must be complementary to the larger, complex social system where things are interconnected. An effective policy can only result from the collective consideration of these together. Polanyi's writing style is clear, direct, and simple and, unlike deeply nomenclature-intense economics write-ups, this book is rather an easy read. When we prescribe/teach The Industrial Revolution as an essential or secondary reading, The Great Transformation should also be a companion reading.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2013
★★★★★ 5
Read!
Format: Paperback
Well, I was going to review this wonderful work. However, Robert Moore's review is so spot on that there is really no need to take up more space. Also I need a nap. Anyway, this book is truly fascinating. If you are at all interested in Political Economy, this is perhaps one of the most important books you will ever read. There is no school which has the authors name attached to it, nor is there a political movement dedicated to the realization of his ideas. In most cases this is because the author did not contribute original thought or make an adequate connection of his thought process with reality. In Polanyi's case, this is because the originality of his thought cuts through the specialized form in which science and social studies is presented today and cannot possible be claimed to belong to 'economics' any more than it can of 'sociology', 'anthropology', 'history', 'international relations', etc..
Read this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2009
★★★★★ 5
Understanding the Market vs Government influence
Format: Paperback
A must read.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2025
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