Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

> On May 1, 2019, at 10:11 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk > wrote: > > Moving from Ohio to Texas in 2017 I gave away two DEC tall racks (36U?). > Rebuilding here in my converted bedroom office I bought an open 4 post rack > off Ebay that lists as 27U but has about 29U of usable space

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

On 4/29/2019 7:20 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: the system temperatures. My plan is to keep the 24x7 servers as low to the ground as possible. Stuff that gets powered of “when needed”, can go higher up in the rack. The one exception will be if I put the MicroVAX III with RA7x drives into

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

On 4/29/2019 12:19 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: My next question is, what options are there for putting a shelf in a standard rack? My google-fu seems to be failing me. I’ve I’m going to put any desktops in the rack, I’ll need a shelf or two, at a minimum. Zane Moving from Ohio to

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

> On Apr 29, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:05 PM Zane Healy > wrote: > >> On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Warner Losh > > wrote: >> >> While it might not be useful for all applications, I've gone down to

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:05 PM Zane Healy wrote: > > On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > While it might not be useful for all applications, I've gone down to the > hardware store and purchased "angle iron" and cut it to length. I then > drill a whole through it in a couple of

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

> On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > While it might not be useful for all applications, I've gone down to the > hardware store and purchased "angle iron" and cut it to length. I then drill > a whole through it in a couple of places and bolt it to the rack. It's not as >

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 1:37 PM Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > > > On Apr 29, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Paul Koning > wrote: > > > >> On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:19 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> > >> ... > >> My next question is, what options are there for putting a shelf

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

> On Apr 29, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:19 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> ... >> My next question is, what options are there for putting a shelf in a >> standard rack? My google-fu seems to be failing me. I’ve I’m going to put >> any

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

> On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:19 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > My next question is, what options are there for putting a shelf in a standard > rack? My google-fu seems to be failing me. I’ve I’m going to put any > desktops in the rack, I’ll need a shelf or two, at a minimum. I

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

> On Apr 29, 2019, at 7:18 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk > wrote: > >> From: Zane Healy > >> How safe is it to put modern rack rails (HP) in a classic DEC Rack? > > May I ask why you're doing that? Are you trying to mount modern units > in an old rack? > > If you're trying to mount old

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

> From: Zane Healy > How safe is it to put modern rack rails (HP) in a classic DEC Rack? May I ask why you're doing that? Are you trying to mount modern units in an old rack? If you're trying to mount old units (RK05's, BA11's, etc) in an old rack, I've been working on finding old

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

> On Apr 27, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk > wrote: > > Zan said >> How safe is it to put modern rack rails (HP) in a classic DEC Rack? The DEC >> racks have small holes, while the new HP racks, IIRC, have big square holes. >> It looks like the rails will work, they just

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

Zan said > How safe is it to put modern rack rails (HP) in a classic DEC Rack? The DEC > racks have small holes, while the new HP racks, IIRC, have big square holes. > It looks like the rails will work, they just won’t clip flush. > > Zane I have been modifying quite a few hodgepodge pairs of

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

doesnt really mater the moder design just made it so u could use different screw sizes on them