I'm very happy with the one I made out of oak plywood.
Expensive, but looks nice in the house. My future geek
equipment will be made this way.
But, "real" rack assemblies have fans, overtemp
alarms/shutoffs, etc, and I would hate to leave stuff
on unattended without these items.
--- William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org> wrote:
> > While thinking about racks to use for mounting my
> PDP-11/44
> > components, as well as other equipment from test
> equipment to audio
> > and synth equipment, something just occured to me:
> why bother with
> > hunting down steel racks when some 2x4s and lag
> bolts may suffice just
> > as well?
>
> This is an old ham trick. In theory, it works, but
> it really is not very
> practical, with the work involved. It is much easier
> to just find a rack,
> or just find the rack rails and attach them to the
> wood.
>
> > Lastly, has anyone on this list tried retrofitting
> non-rack-mount
> > equipment into racks? E.g., welding (or "JB
> Weld"ing) rack-mount tabs
> > onto systems like PCs and Kaypros, as well as
> making rack-mountable
> > shelves to hold the Macintoshes, etc.?
>
> Shelves are easy to make. At just about every
> hamfest, there is usually
> some hunk of junk rackmount dofunny sitting in the
> dumpster at the end of
> the show (act fast, as the vultures are out). If you
> examine how many are
> made, you can generally find a pair of metal
> brackets that will do the
> job. These brackets, somewhat triangular and always
> in pairs, were a very
> common way to attach off-the-shelf chassis to rack
> panels. If you can't
> bolt these directly to the thing you want to mount,
> try cutting a square
> of plywood with a few screws, and perhaps some
> aluminum angle stock.
>
> William Donzelli
> aw288_at_osfn.org
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