Salsbury-industries 4850A Antique Rural Mailboxes Antique Newspaper Ho User Manual download pdf

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Installation instructions are provided as general guidelines. It is advised that a professional installer be consulted. Salsbury Industries assumes no product assembly or installation liability.

Antique Rural Mailboxes – 4850A

Antique Newspaper Holder on Standard or Decorative

Mailbox Post Installation Instructions

U.S.P.S. APPROVED

Thank you for selecting Salsbury’s 4850A antique rural mailbox. This instruction sheet is for installing the 4850A antique rural mailbox along with a 4815A antique

newspaper holder on a standard or decorative mailbox post. Other installation instructions are available for installing the mailbox on a standard mailbox post, or on a

decorative mailbox post, installing the mailbox on spreaders, and installing the post in a concrete footing.

When you install a curbside or roadside mailbox, make sure that it is easily accessible to the mail carrier. By regulation it should be 41” to 45” from the ground or

street surface up to the inside floor of the mailbox. The door should be set back 6” to 8” back from the front face of the curb or the road edge. However, you should

check with your local postmaster to ensure that the mailbox is installed according to local regulations.

Newspaper Holder to Standard Mailbox Post Installation

Install four (4) 5/16”-18 x 2” long pan head bolts provided with the post

through the four (4) square holes shown in the inside floor of the newspaper

holder and through the four (4) tapped holes on the top plate of the standard

mailbox post. Insert a Phillips head screw driver through each square hole

directly above, and in the top of the newspaper holder, to tighten the pan head

bolts.

Mailbox Installation on a Newspaper Holder and Standard

Mailbox Post

All hardware to attach the mailbox to the newspaper holder is included with

the newspaper holder. To attach the mailbox to the newspaper holder, install

four (4) 5/16”-18 X 3/4” long carriage bolts into (4) square holes in the floor of

the mailbox and through the four (4) square holes shown on the top of the

newspaper holder. Install 5/16” flat washers and 5/16”-18 hex nuts on the

ends of the four (4) bolts protruding below the top of the newspaper holder.

Cover the hex nuts with cap plugs. Installation is complete. Additional

hardware provided is not needed and may be discarded.

Newspaper Holder to Decorative Mailbox Post Installation

All hardware to attach the newspaper holder to the post is included with the

post. To install the newspaper holder to the post, install six (6) 5/16”-18 X

3/4” long carriage bolts through the (6) square holes shown in the inside floor

of newspaper holder and through the six (6) square holes on the top plate of

the decorative post arm. Install 5/16” flat washers and 5/16”-18 hex nuts on

the ends of the six (6) bolts protruding below the top plate of the decorative

post arm. Cover the hex nuts with cap plugs.

Mailbox Installation on a Newspaper Holder and Decorative