I keep wanting to build this but I have seen people talking online that they changed the legs and they are now hollow and not really suitable for this.
That has made me very cautious to use this for any serious amount of mounting.
Edit: Apparently there is a section on that page about it, but does not give a ton of confidence that it won’t give me a lot of issues.
The tops of the posts are still solid. You could mount a single rack unit and be okay, but fully populating lack legs is not recommended. Cute way to hide a network switch, though.
I once worked in a hardware lab that used wire shelving for holding arrays of running machines, and a bad ground running through one chassis caused anyone who touched the shelf to get shocked by something very close to line voltage.
That shelf is more glue and fire retardant than it is wood. Its also really bad as a book shelf so it might still be superior in this role than the intended one.
Reminds me of the LACK that is commonly used for server racks: https://www.google.com/search?udm=web&q=lack+rack
I really don't want to be too much of a downer, but is this really just an HN post about someone putting something on a shelf?
I mean, you can probably reduce any HN article to something that doesnt sound worthy of being on here if you want
Sure, but this truly is just about putting a motherboard on a shelf.
They couldn’t even be bothered to get a good photo of it ffs.
You're not wrong.
How in gods name this article made it to the front page of HN is a mystery.
Bots are in to stuff like this.
Because enough readers upvoted it to cause it to appear there.
Any ideas on that mystery, then? Since you’ve got your finger on the pulse around here.
What you’re really here for is the Lack Rack:
https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
I keep wanting to build this but I have seen people talking online that they changed the legs and they are now hollow and not really suitable for this.
That has made me very cautious to use this for any serious amount of mounting.
Edit: Apparently there is a section on that page about it, but does not give a ton of confidence that it won’t give me a lot of issues.
The tops of the posts are still solid. You could mount a single rack unit and be okay, but fully populating lack legs is not recommended. Cute way to hide a network switch, though.
Nice fire safety and grounding. Wood is ideal for both. They should build data centers like this.
How exactly do you envision this going wrong?
The rack itself won't hold electrostatic charge, and if the devices themselves want to be grounded they can be grounded through their power supply
And wood isn't that easy to get to burn unless you turn it into small particles first
I once worked in a hardware lab that used wire shelving for holding arrays of running machines, and a bad ground running through one chassis caused anyone who touched the shelf to get shocked by something very close to line voltage.
I’m more worried about heat dissipation though.
That shelf is more glue and fire retardant than it is wood. Its also really bad as a book shelf so it might still be superior in this role than the intended one.
As a current user of the said item of furniture I'm curious what makes it really bad as a book shelf.
It's a shelf and in the past few years it has not yet failed at holding my books.
The shelves will start to sag substantially if you fill them.