Introducing the IKEA 10” Rack
Introducing the IKEA 10” Rack
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)
Where did you buy the rack rails from?
2Cant speak for OP, but amazon sells them
Something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Gator-Rackworks-Heavy-Steel-GRW-RACKRAIL-06U/dp/B072B9H3FC/
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Ben Shapiro hates one of your ports.
1Are you sure it is not two ports?
1True.
I just thought how scared he is of a WAP.
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Is that a fan and vent hood coming out of the top?
1Nice! Consider some set back adapters for your PDU, then you can make sure the PSUs don’t stick out. I used some in my slightly larger rack https://gist.github.com/scyto/76e94832927a89d977ea989da157e9dc I think they are useful to stop plugs getting snagged…
1If anyone is genuinely interested in a parts list I’ll leave a comment below.
I am interested!
1Looks nice 👌 I was thinking of making the same thing for my switch, RPi and mini PCs, but I'll go with a metal frame.
1I was actually inspired by this post and some posts on this subreddit to make a 10" rack for myself.
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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.
1Top 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.)
1It was definitely to make it cleaner overall. And yep the patch panel is just RJ45 keystones.
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This is amazing.
1Looks 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
1Exceptional. May want to xpost to /r/ScandinavianInterior/ for some extra karma :D
1You should add a mini pc
1Can I get the parts list :) Being a swed it seems like a fun project to do at least take inspo from.
1If you can, yeah a parts list would be awesome !
1Am 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!
1Honestly...kinda cute.
1Very cool and neat setup. Nicely done!
1this one is creat, maybe i build the same :D
1I did something similar with Kallax a few years ago. I even built a kallax sized enclosure for my NAS!
1I think it's cool!
Still have to see a Lack Rack made with the small one (35x35) which should be small enough to fit 10" rack, like the big one fits 16" stuff.
1Been considering building a mini lack rack to put on top of my lack rack to hold my mini PCs.
1What’s the iron bracket where you mount the nut and its cage?
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