| ▲ | Billy bookshelves as a retro motherboard "rack"(rubenerd.com) |
| 27 points by ingve 4 days ago | 20 comments |
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| ▲ | pch00 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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? |
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| ▲ | voidUpdate an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I mean, you can probably reduce any HN article to something that doesnt sound worthy of being on here if you want | | |
| ▲ | relaxing 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | GJim an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You're not wrong. How in gods name this article made it to the front page of HN is a mystery. | | |
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| ▲ | jl6 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What you’re really here for is the Lack Rack: https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack |
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| ▲ | nerdjon an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | ralferoo 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I have an old Lack (20 years) and while I've never used it as a rack, it'd just been retired from under the TV as I got a new one with a wider base. I notice that even though it's never been moved much, it doesn't feel very stable any more and I wouldn't trust it with a rack of heavy equipment, especially with HDDs that could suffer catastrophic failure if they fell. That said, attaching brackets would sure up the legs a bit. Ideally you'd want to attack brackets at the back as well I guess. | |
| ▲ | Arubis an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | layer8 13 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminds me of the LACK that is commonly used for server racks: https://www.google.com/search?udm=web&q=lack+rack |
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| ▲ | Kenji 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Nice fire safety and grounding. Wood is ideal for both. They should build data centers like this. |
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| ▲ | wongarsu 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 | |
| ▲ | relaxing 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | tokai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | avian an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | tokai an hour ago | parent [-] | | The shelves will start to sag substantially if you fill them. | | |
| ▲ | Ekaros 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Can't say I can observe this with a few years old ones. Even with shelves having reasonable amount of magazines or bigger books. |
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