Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

[MYK]

Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

Is there a tool to put in those little clip-in cage nuts?

I was recently at a fairly big university in California and I had the oppertunity to screw around with some multi-thousand dollar equipment with big "property of the U.S. Gov't" stickers on them. Just the sort of person I bet they'd like to be in there, a measly high school graduate...

Long story short, I stuck a screwdriver into the end of my thumb trying to install one of these little damn things. I didn't see any tools around the area to put these in, so, I gotta assume there's a lot of thumbless people in the biz.

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

flathead screwdriver is what I use, put the bottom flange in the hole, press the top against the edge of the other side, press down firmly and it clicks in, never stabbed myself yet, 15+ years experience in it.

 

[Bathmat]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

flathead screwdriver is what I use, put the bottom flange in the hole, press the top against the edge of the other side, press down firmly and it clicks in, never stabbed myself yet, 15+ years experience in it.

Yeah, I've used the same. I find they're much more difficult to remove than to put in. Haven't heard of any tools for it, but changing them comes up rarely enough that a flathead screwdriver and a lot of fiddling eventually gets the job done.

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

The big problem with removing them in being able to get a hand in the right position because of the crap cable management many people do.
If your using a short (3 inch or less) screwdriver and the cables are not blocking the way its fine and most of them don't need to be removed unless you are mounting something that uses that tiny bit of space in that position.

 

[jmervyn]

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Yeah, I've used the same. I find they're much more difficult to remove than to put in. Haven't heard of any tools for it, but changing them comes up rarely enough that a flathead screwdriver and a lot of fiddling eventually gets the job done.

That makes three of us. And no, I've never seen a special tool for it.

 

[Oscuro]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

I haven't used it myself, but I've seen this tool recommended in other places.

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

I haven't used it myself, but I've seen this tool recommended in other places.

Well there you go.
(If you need that tool I'm going to think your a big wimp but hey your confident your just smarter than me.)

 

[jmervyn]

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(If you need that tool I'm going to think your a big wimp but hey your confident your just smarter than me.)

It's for all the "Tim the Tool-man Taylor" wannabees...

Spoiler

Real Men use a Leatherman - and nothing else! :crazyeyes:

 

[MYK]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

A flathead may have done a lot better than the phillips I used... Jerk cousin I was working with brought two of those, Hah...

My thumb is almost all healed up with no scarring. Yay.

 

[BobCox2]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

A flathead may have done a lot better than the phillips I used... Jerk cousin I was working with brought two of those, Hah...

My thumb is almost all healed up with no scarring. Yay.

You used a phillips?
:doh:

 

[MYK]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

You used a phillips?
:doh:

It worked...slightly better than using my bare fingers...

 

[Dondrei]

Re: Anyone work in IT/Rack mounting computers?

Yeah, flat head screwdriver, but some of them are a ****ing nightmare anyway. You get one side loose and then you're painstakingly edging the other one like a ****ing safecracker and then all of a sudden it clicks - at the same time re-latching the one on the other side. On those ones the plastic tab thingies wind up pretty mutilated by the end.