I ordered two 20mm plates of acrylic glass today to be used as the support for the console above my bench where all my boatanchors reside on.
Something has to be done:
Don't worry, it's still safe because it still deformes/swings elastically, so it won't break all at once.
It's so much out of the horizontal position because the support (the near triangular plate underneath the console) has rotated around the middle of its three mounting screws. And that was possible because the drilling holes are a bit larger than the screws diameter.
I plan to use the plates as a support that sits on the bench surface so that the 40mmx40mm Aluminium posts don't have to bear all the weight alone. I'll substitute the 40mmx40mm (2mm thickness) Aluminium posts with steel ones of the same size but 3mm thickness also.
If I take into consideration that nearly my whole test equipment is sitting up there it's no wonder it turned that way:
Three HP linear system power supplies (2x6643A,1x6632B), two HP 3488A, two HP 3456A voltmeters, one HP 3457A Multimeter, one Knick Calibrator (full width), one HP LCR Meter, three Fluke counters, two Philips Multimeters (PM2534/2535), one classic Tube Oscilloscope and a HP3437 System Voltmeter, my GPIB Cable stock plus the unavoidable junk everyone collects at his lab bench..