that wooden " backplate" has to go too LOL
Why?
Wood backplates are sometimes seen in low voltage/telecom enclosures. They certainly make mounting additional components in the field easy (no drilling/tapping, and no worries about wayward chips shorting anything out).
Hoffman provides them in some of their datacom cabinets. I have installed a bunch of these:
http://www.hoffmanonline.com/produc..._3=43378&catID=43378&itemID=3593
