Re: Turntable underneath a rack?!?!

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Noel,

I looked at something like this when I built my rack but decided it
was too complicated, given the weight of kit that I'd probably house.
I decided that pulling the whole rack forward was good enough. You can
mount individual bits of kit on rails and pull them forward, out of
the rack, but I didn't want the risk of the whole lot toppling over
just 'cos I'd pulled a server forward etc.

Having big castors (ooo err Mrs...) are the key I think - the ones I
have on my rack are a bit small but I'm also limited on height (my
rack is about 1.5m tall) and rolls in & out of the cupboard under the
stairs.

HTH,

Tim.

On 4/15/06, noel_pilot <HA@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Apologies if this sounds insane!
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> I've seen the little turntable spinny things...(technical term!!)
> that you can get to put under tv's to be able to turn them easily...
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> ....so....assuming you had a space for Node 0 that you could only
> access from the front but had a bit of space at the side is there
> anything you could put under a rack that would let you spin it round?!
>  I know weight has got to be an issue here, and you'd have to make
> sure all cables entered from the top so you could turn it ok but has
> anyone ever heard or found anything that would allow this?
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> Just thinking that I'd really not like to lose all access to the rear
> of Node 0 but the space im thinking of is front access only!
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> any ideas or alternatively how do other people get round not being
> able to access the rear? slide out shelves and plenty of cable
slack?!?!
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> Cheers
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> Noel
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