Thank you for the compliments gentlemen! McBrain, good to hear from you, I swear the illness is now under control, can't think of getting much better than I have, and got great deals on all three kits, these are all keepers. I thought I saw your kits in the reader for sale a little while back, did you sell them and replace them with another kit? Fussion, the rack is an old rack from a company called Ultimate Support Systems, I don't even know if they are in business anymore. I got the rack with a used Yamaha Recording Custom kit I bought many years ago, but have since sold the kit. The various clamps are a mixture of older Tama rack clamps, Yamaha, and Gibralter parts. I have two of these racks. Here is the secret, parts of the rack are the original aluminum piping, other parts such as the "feet" are steel. I posted this before in another thread a while back ago, the stand-up torch lamps with the halogen bulbs you can buy for your home or office, are of the same diameter as the rack piping from Gibralter or other rack companies - 1.5 inches. Instead of throwing away the lamps when they burn out (the bulbs are sometimes more expensive than the whole lamp itself) recycle the lamp piping, cut to size with a hacksaw, and make a rack for yourself. Also, some of the stands that PA speakers are mounted on, I believe are 1.5 inch in diameter. Basically any 1.5 inch diameter pipe could be used, it's the composition of the metal that will dictate how heavy (steel) or light (aluminum) the rack will be. Check out ebay for clamps and such, as buying the clamps separately/new, you may approach the cost of a new rack. And if any of you gents make it to the San Diego, CA area for business or pleasure, I would be happy to let you check out the kits (if my work and school schedule allows at the time), and take them for a spin, just pm me!