RE: Home made cabinets for rack mount gear

["Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>]

Steve,

Here's message I posted a little while ago re: my DIY 19" rack. Let me= know
if you've got any more questions and I'll try to help.

Cheers,

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
>
> A little while ago I promised to firstly finish, then
> photograph my DIY
> rack.
>
> It's more or less complete. It needs a top & bottom, plus the cast= ors
> fitting but it's just about there. All I need now are some
> "bargains" (c) to
> populate it with ;-)
>
> I apologise in advance for the photos, they were taken about 9.30 last=
> night, on a DV camcorder without a flash, so they are bit
> grainy. You get
> the idea though. I'll take some better ones with a view to
> writing this up
> as a tutorial, if there's sufficient interest.
>
> The frame is made from two metal-framed tables one on top of
> the other, cut
> down to size and joined with blocks inside the tubing.
> Overall approx dims
> are: 1225h x 580w x 570d
>
> For my fellow skin-flints, the total cost was about 50p for a
> couple-dozen
> screws, everything else came from a very generous skip (yup,
> that includes
> the 3U case :-) )
>
> The pictures are in the photos section of the group on Yahoo, see:
> http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/lst?.dir=3D/Tim_Hawe=
s/DIY+19in+Rac
k&.src="3Dgr&.view=3Dt

Cheers,

Tim H.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve D
>
> I am about to either purchase or make my own cabinet for HA
> and home server
> gear, patch panels etc, and was wondering wether there are
> any suggestions
> for this, cost is limited to about =A350-100
>
> Any ideas welcome, as I know there are a few DIY racks here??
>
>
> Thanks
>
>

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