Here’s a full write-up on the first year of my Home-Lab: https://piefed.social/post/1002037

Since then I’ve now added networking and a self built 10" rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I’m quite happy.

Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10" server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:

  • Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.
  • Buy a table/mitre saw or have them pre-cut
  • Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.
  • Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that’s what she said)

It’s janky I know, but I love it and it’s a lot less Janky than when everything was just on my desk

Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything

Shout out to https://www.motedis.com/ for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don’t want to bother with that, but that’s half the fun (and frustration)

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    2 days ago

    Was eyeing a 52Pi rack for a good little while this post inspired me to get one, but then I saw the shipping cost.

    • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Ooof that is rough!!

      If you can make your own like I did I would highly recommend it.

      If you have the Alu tubing cut and threaded for you most of the work is done

      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        If you can make your own like I did I would highly recommend it.

        Honestly I could, metal fabrication comes in handy, get it shop issued and laser or water cut send it through the machinists, I would have to supply the material myself which would be difficult but certainly doable.

        I’ll have to consider this! By chance do you have drawings or dimensions of your rack as a starting point, looks like you’re using Aluminum HSS for the frame? Completely understandable if you rather not share the details,