Re: rack-mount kit

Curious. Not sure any longer how wide the 5xx models were but it seems like they were just about the right width. Since the E4A takes air in the front and exhausts out the rear, airflow wouldn't be a problem. The entire innerds of the 510 come out quite easily, half out the front and half out the back once you get the right screws out. Modifications to that or mounting the rails to the cabinet should be fairly straight forward. Other than the cabinet though it's not very likely much else will be utilized but maybe you don't care :-)

Reminds me of my father pulling out the dead B&W TV chassis out of my grandmothers huge wooden TV console and slipping a nice color set in there. Despite lots of theft in the area, including at her own home, nobody knew that dude was in there and nobody even in the 1970s wanted to steal a massive console TV!

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On 5/10/2013 9:06 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

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