Re: rack-mount kit

On 5/10/13 3:39 PM, Elden Fenison wrote:

We have a rack-mount kit for our IBM Power 520 Express that we'd like
to install. It's an IBM part. The system is currently a free-standing
vertical tower type.

By way of weekend levity, I've done just about the precise opposite:

I built a benchtop kit, from lumber and plywood, for our rack-mountable E4A: a 3/4" plywood top (so we can set stuff on it without risk of damage) on 4 stubby little legs (that straddle the case, and keep the weight of the plywood completely off it), all with several coats of black acrylic paint. There aren't any side or back panels, in order to avoid obstructing any vents.

We anticipate that someday, before all of us (and the E4A) are retired, we will have a rack to put the E4A in. And a computer cage that's actually got room for a rack (before we retired our bartered 510, it had to live outside the computer cage, because there was no space for it inside).

One of my early concepts for a non-rack mounting arrangement would have been to build it into a coffee table. Or an end-table.

I wonder if an E4A could be built into the carcass of an old 510. Or maybe the carcass of a sidecar.

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JHHL