This was my attempt to solve the problem of having as much hardware as possible in as little space as possible.

Currently, it's the home of my DSL router, one 8-port switch, two webservers, one testing environment, one printer, one UPS and my good old Commodore 64 (new version). The rack is a real space saver.

Overall the project was quite successful, even though I didn't get the width quite up to 19" (it's 18,75" now), but that doesn't really matter, as I didn't have any 19" hardware at that time either.

Next time I'll try my luck at welding one and making it a "real" 19" rack.

"But why?", you might ask. Well, for starters, I like building things. Secondly, 19" racks are really expensive. The total cost of this project is about 40 € (which is about 100 € less than the cheapest 19" racks I could find). It's polished now, so it looks much nicer than in these photos.

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