Lab Rax 10" Server Rack - 5U for A1 Mini

The Lab Rax is amazing. @mkelements made such a cool system for people who want to 3D print their homelab. The biggest problem for me, was that it was unprintable on a small printer. Obviously, this makes sense, but I am not in the market for a bigger printer just yet, but still wanted to print the Lab Rax as my first homelab rack. 

So I took the base files and adjusted them to fit on an A1 Mini. For the most part, it just involved cutting things in half, adding some alignment pins and adding holes. The thing that brings this together is the post joiners that @mkelements also made to expand the 5U version to a larger version. Using these as a standard for connecting the main parts of the rack, I just had to split the vertical rails in a way to accommodate the post joiners for the 5U version.

Other things here are very much a WIP still, but they work. Things like the side and bottom panels I created a whole new backing strip for to give them some rigidity, but they are not as optimal as I would like. Other things, I didn't create at all yet, like the top panel. 

The instructions to build this are pretty much the same as the regular bolted version. Buy the nuts and bolts from the original model (probably double the order just in case) and use the post joiners to connect the 2 pieces of the vertical posts and the horizontal edges (solid ones are a lot more rigid than the vented, but the vented ones can still work). Top edges fit as is on the A1 Mini plate so no difference there. The BIG differences are the side and bottom panels. I had to split them in half and add holes for the big backing strips I made. Here is the print list:

• Top Edge Plate x 4
• Vertical Rails Plate x 4
• Solid/Vented Horizontal Edge Plate x 4 (use whatever combo you want for these. I used 2 solid edges for the bottom and 2 vented for the top)
• Post Joiners x 8 (plate has 3, but you could clone these. You need 1 for each vertical rail connection and 1 for each horizontal edge connection)
• Side Panel Plate x 2
• Bottom Panel Plate x 2
• Side Panel Backing Strip x 1
• Bottom Panel Backing Strip x 1
• Handles Plate x 1
• Feet Plate x 1

I still think these could be optimized a bit more, but it does work pretty well thanks to the post joiners.