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benjojo posted 20 Jan 2026 16:30 +0000

Only realised until I wanted to rack something in U34 that I had accidentally last year racked a 4U 120kg+ mega chonker on the piss... So everything in that box is slightly on a slope, but even worse is blocking out a entire unit under it...

There is no way that I am moving that 4U chassis until the day it dies, or I move colo's. It was reasonably traumatic bringing it in...

Urgh

two photos side by side showing the front and back of the mounting holes at the side of a telecoms rack, on the left hand side of the photo the supporting bracket screws are in the unit for thirty five fully, on the right hand photo showing the back of the rack, the screws are stuck between the top hole of unit thirty four and the middle hole of unit thirty five

ret@furry.engineer replied 20 Jan 2026 16:32 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/PYjCX3TVGd55H442l5

@benjojo did this once at my old job and only realised it 6 months later when I put a pen down on top of the box and it rolled off and disappeared into oblivion down the side of the rack.

benjojo replied 20 Jan 2026 16:35 +0000
in reply to: https://furry.engineer/users/ret/statuses/115928381837717554

@ret occasionally I lose LC dust caps into the 1/2 rack below me, very much a https://youtu.be/JICKZOdDtVc?t=248 moment

penguin42@mastodon.o.. replied 20 Jan 2026 20:10 +0000
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@benjojo wth have you got that is 120kg+? Big switch chassis or big storage chassis?

benjojo replied 20 Jan 2026 20:17 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.org.uk/users/penguin42/statuses/115929240045615442

@penguin42 Storage! It's a CSE-F414 with basically "only spinners"

Der_Lichttechniker@c.. replied 20 Jan 2026 21:14 +0000
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@benjojo you just need an other person, a plan and leverage.

benjojo replied 20 Jan 2026 22:11 +0000
in reply to: https://chaos.social/users/Der_Lichttechniker/statuses/115929491461120411

@Der_Lichttechniker the risk of dropping that machine would be /catastrophic/ to the biz (and whatever is under it, likely my router/switches, it's just not worth it to recover a single U in a rack

Der_Lichttechniker@c.. replied 20 Jan 2026 22:14 +0000
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@benjojo that is your opinion and its the only value opinion in this case but for the fucks sake, I'd prefer to fix that 😅

kevin@fedi.kevinisag.. replied 20 Jan 2026 16:39 +0000
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@benjojo could be worse, a customer at work has had a storage appliance racked backwards for ~4 years, exhausting into the cold aisle