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Update on my Home-Lab now featuring a fully custom built 10" Aluminumm rack (lemmy.nz)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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)

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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,

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm more than happy to share. If others didn't share I wouldn't have been able to do my hobby.

So basically I just kinda copied this:
https://www.darkrym.com/posts/2025/05/my-rack-setup-2020-extrusion-diy-mini-rack/

The biggest difference is I used different corners, and I made mine a bit deeper (28cm total, so that it would fit a 30cm 3D printer bed)