Hi All,
Just finished installation of an Accuride Rack system. For me this was great as I lacked rear access at the location I needed to install the rack. This is basically a top and bottom slide out which you put a cabinet in between. The cabinet rides on rails and slides out and rotates 45 degrees for full access to the rear or front of the rack. This thing is not cheap, I am into the rack and DIY cabinet made from high end Birch plywood for over $600. They claim it will hold a total of 300 lbs of equipment. It comes with a nice cable carrier in the back that scissors in and out when you pull the rack out to keep the cables from getting cut. Sorry, poor choice of word, scissor, especially around cables .. But I am now happy! After all said and done this is pretty sharp. Only problems I had was not allowing enough length for several of the speaker cables. You need quite a bit of additional cable length to allow for the slide action of the rack. Also, for a 7.1 system there are few to many cables for the cable carrier/slider. I had to improvise a little on the placement. Found this on the web at a wood working- http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/findprod.cfm?sku=11184
This image is of the sliders installed with no cabinet.
http://img209.exs.cx/img209/9950/racksliders9it.th.jpg
This one has the cabinet installed on the sliders
http://img156.exs.cx/img156/8360/cab...ders1rk.th.jpg
Picutre of rear of the rack with wiring
http://img156.exs.cx/img156/4130/cab...inal1of.th.jpg
Picture of the front of the rack with components
http://img214.exs.cx/img214/589/cabi...inal7pd.th.jpg
Picture finished all that remains are the wood trim pieces that attach to the slider to cover the edge space
http://img214.exs.cx/img214/2387/cabinetfinal3si.th.jpg
Just finished installation of an Accuride Rack system. For me this was great as I lacked rear access at the location I needed to install the rack. This is basically a top and bottom slide out which you put a cabinet in between. The cabinet rides on rails and slides out and rotates 45 degrees for full access to the rear or front of the rack. This thing is not cheap, I am into the rack and DIY cabinet made from high end Birch plywood for over $600. They claim it will hold a total of 300 lbs of equipment. It comes with a nice cable carrier in the back that scissors in and out when you pull the rack out to keep the cables from getting cut. Sorry, poor choice of word, scissor, especially around cables .. But I am now happy! After all said and done this is pretty sharp. Only problems I had was not allowing enough length for several of the speaker cables. You need quite a bit of additional cable length to allow for the slide action of the rack. Also, for a 7.1 system there are few to many cables for the cable carrier/slider. I had to improvise a little on the placement. Found this on the web at a wood working- http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/findprod.cfm?sku=11184
This image is of the sliders installed with no cabinet.
http://img209.exs.cx/img209/9950/racksliders9it.th.jpg
This one has the cabinet installed on the sliders
http://img156.exs.cx/img156/8360/cab...ders1rk.th.jpg
Picutre of rear of the rack with wiring
http://img156.exs.cx/img156/4130/cab...inal1of.th.jpg
Picture of the front of the rack with components
http://img214.exs.cx/img214/589/cabi...inal7pd.th.jpg
Picture finished all that remains are the wood trim pieces that attach to the slider to cover the edge space
http://img214.exs.cx/img214/2387/cabinetfinal3si.th.jpg