Not sure if anyone has done this before but… You’ve seen the IKEA Lack rack, well this one is made from an IKEA Eket. It’s made with 1in square dowels, and some washers between the dowels and rack rails to bridge the gap. The PDU is just a flush mount desk power strip with its sides trimmed. Overall goal with this project was to make the cheapest presentable 10” rack. Overall cost of the Eket, Dowel, screws, and vertical rails was around $50. IKEA recently dropped the price of the Eket by $5 so today it would be $45
Not much on it currently, just a managed 2.5G POE switch, U6 Enterprise and a MOCA adapter since my home isn’t wired with RJ45.
If anyone is genuinely interested in a parts list I’ll leave a comment below.
(Ignore the upside down rack shelf, the switch was too fat. I’ll have to make custom rack ears for it)
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Where did you buy the rack rails from?
Cant speak for OP, but amazon sells them
Something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Gator-Rackworks-Heavy-Steel-GRW-RACKRAIL-06U/dp/B072B9H3FC/
Been considering building a mini lack rack to put on top of my lack rack to hold my mini PCs.
I did something similar with Kallax a few years ago. I even built a kallax sized enclosure for my NAS!
Looks great.
I guess the 8x2.5G PoE switch is this one? How do you like it?
https://www.amazon.com/Cqenpr-2-5GBASE-T-Switching-Multi-Gigabit-Wall-Mount/dp/B0BBRF83PJ
Exceptional. May want to xpost to /r/ScandinavianInterior/ for some extra karma :D
What’s the iron bracket where you mount the nut and its cage?
You should add a mini pc
Can I get the parts list :) Being a swed it seems like a fun project to do at least take inspo from.
If you can, yeah a parts list would be awesome !
Am interested in all of the parts! What rack shelves and rails did you use? If you can give item names or links, it would be helpful!
Love this build!
This is amazing.
Ben Shapiro hates one of your ports.
Are you sure it is not two ports?
True.
I just thought how scared he is of a WAP.
this one is creat, maybe i build the same :D
Really remedial question. I see this configuration a lot, and have never known what it is doing. What is this where you have device feeding directly in to a device right below it with a whole bunch of tiny cables? I’m guessing the thing at the top is router handling VLANs. And the thing below a switch. But I still don’t get what this is doing.
Top component seems a patch panel. What I don’t get is why a patch panel if they don’t have Ethernet/Cat5+ cabling.
since my home isn’t wired with RJ45
Seems like the patch panel & jumpers are just for extending in-room patch cables, to make it look cleaner. I suppose it might improve portability, with the patch panel effectively documenting where the device patch cables need to be connecting. (I’m assuming RJ45 coupler keystones.)
It was definitely to make it cleaner overall. And yep the patch panel is just RJ45 keystones.
This rack does not contain a router. In essence it pretty much just houses my access point. My router is in my basement. The top device is the MOCA adapter, which converts ethernet running through coax cables in my walls to RJ45. Then the it is plugged into the patch panel (specifically the port labelled “LAN”). A white patch cable then connects to my switch. Allowing for whatever devices connected to the switch to be connected to the network. All the other ports in my patch panel are devices specifically in my room. So stuff like my WAP, my PC, maybe a raspberry pi in the future, ect. ,ect. All of them connect to the switch via the patch panel.
Is that a fan and vent hood coming out of the top?
Nope that’s my UniFi Access Point. I came up with using the Eket as a basis for the rack specifically so I could mount my AP there.