i am a superior tool-wielding hominid

[rone]

Today i was at my company's colocation cage.  The task set before me and my coworker was to rack two Sun Fire 445 servers.

The Problem
The rails are one and one-third rack units high.  There are two holes on top and bottom, and two pins in the middle.  The idea is that the holes allow the rails to be screwed in, and the pins align directly with the two unused screw holes in between.

In practice, you can see a bend at the end of the rail.  This causes the rail to not allow the pins to align with the holes.  Thus, the rail is effectively useless.

The Solution

I managed to procure a hammer at my favorite restaurant, Hunan Taste, where my coworker and i had lunch.  It was either that or attempt to unbend the cheap metal rail with a pair of vise grips.

The Result

Once again, a judicious and clever application of violence saves the day.

Comments

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

And, up in the land winter forgot, apparently I'm going to be racking some Q-boxen in rhymes-with-Hell racks. Oh, and the Q-box at the top of the existing loose stack is in active use by the dev team and they come screaming when it falls over. At least we have a whole cabinet empty that can get rebuilt by the designated victim, I mean sysadmin.

Sigh. I suppose I should have brought my peavy up to the machineroom and used it to sort things out, the day I had it and the chainsaw out in the car.