Not sure if anyone has done this before but… You’ve seen the IKEA Lack rack, well this one is made from an IKEA Eket. It’s made with 1in square dowels, and some washers between the dowels and rack rails to bridge the gap. The PDU is just a flush mount desk power strip with its sides trimmed. Overall goal with this project was to make the cheapest presentable 10” rack. Overall cost of the Eket, Dowel, screws, and vertical rails was around $50. IKEA recently dropped the price of the Eket by $5 so today it would be $45
Not much on it currently, just a managed 2.5G POE switch, U6 Enterprise and a MOCA adapter since my home isn’t wired with RJ45.
If anyone is genuinely interested in a parts list I’ll leave a comment below.
(Ignore the upside down rack shelf, the switch was too fat. I’ll have to make custom rack ears for it)
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Where did you buy the rack rails from?
Cant speak for OP, but amazon sells them
Something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Gator-Rackworks-Heavy-Steel-GRW-RACKRAIL-06U/dp/B072B9H3FC/
I think it’s cool!
Still have to see a Lack Rack made with the small one (35x35) which should be small enough to fit 10" rack, like the big one fits 16" stuff.
Looks great.
I guess the 8x2.5G PoE switch is this one? How do you like it?
https://www.amazon.com/Cqenpr-2-5GBASE-T-Switching-Multi-Gigabit-Wall-Mount/dp/B0BBRF83PJ
Exceptional. May want to xpost to /r/ScandinavianInterior/ for some extra karma :D
Been considering building a mini lack rack to put on top of my lack rack to hold my mini PCs.
What’s the iron bracket where you mount the nut and its cage?
You should add a mini pc
Can I get the parts list :) Being a swed it seems like a fun project to do at least take inspo from.
If you can, yeah a parts list would be awesome !
Am interested in all of the parts! What rack shelves and rails did you use? If you can give item names or links, it would be helpful!
Love this build!
This is amazing.
this one is creat, maybe i build the same :D
Ben Shapiro hates one of your ports.
Are you sure it is not two ports?
True.
I just thought how scared he is of a WAP.
Is that a fan and vent hood coming out of the top?
Nope that’s my UniFi Access Point. I came up with using the Eket as a basis for the rack specifically so I could mount my AP there.
Nice! Consider some set back adapters for your PDU, then you can make sure the PSUs don’t stick out. I used some in my slightly larger rack https://gist.github.com/scyto/76e94832927a89d977ea989da157e9dc I think they are useful to stop plugs getting snagged…
Woah that’s clever I’ll actually look into that.