Hello. Has anyone recently come across a solution to mount the Digitakt and Digitone (as a pair) in a 19” rack? I note that Fraction Industries is no more. Thanks
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Thanks DefSteph. I’m pretty sure that’s a Fraction Industries product. It’s been snapped up. They go like hot cakes.
I think I’ll just get a universal 4R and DIY.
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Let me know how you go. Looking for a solution myself!
Howdy. I gave up. Didn’t want to fiddle around building my own - too much fine work for me. So they’re sitting on the desk.
Update…
Anyone found a nice 19" rack yet that fits 2 of these little monsters?
(without the big gaps that was posted a while back.)
Yes! This is the best I have found. https://www.racksolutions.co.uk/flushmount-monitor-kit.html
The actual bracket works fine, Lets you perfectly adjust the depth. There isn’t the screwholes though, so you will either have to drill your own or use some duallock/velcro to attach the digits to the rack.
That also leaves a big gap where dust etc all falls into unfortunately.
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In designing one of these, the way you’d have to compensate for the gap is by increasing the gauge of the metal to occupy the space where the void occurs. The extra material thickness means it wouldn’t work on the exact same plans as these others if you, for example, found a premade template file. You would need to adjust the measurements to compensate for the bend radius and material wall depth. It would also require heavier equipment to bend an increased gauge of metal.
The weight would probably increase significantly, and it would come with the downside that there’s potential for scraping when installing and uninstalling the devices, also that you’d almost 100% need to remove the entire unit if you wanted to remove just 1 device from it temporarily. Also another downside I just thought of is the actual mount to the rack would probably need to be welded on and not just bent over, the reason being that the increased material thickness would cause it to protrude pretty far out in front of the rack and need some crazy custom mount kit. Therefore the mounting plates would need to be welded on and made of a more standard gauge of steel. The welds, however, would require more skilled labor and be strong enough to withstand the increased weight of the extra thick metal plus the 2 digis.
The easier and probably less costly way to do this would be to buy the one kreeba suggested and then using your measurements about the actual size of the void, use a metal plate to supplement the gap and just make it more aesthetically pleasing, it probably would not need to be thick gauge metal and would not require a lot of cost or skill to fabricate. I’ll make a quick mock up of the idea.
This is a pretty low brow effort but I don’t have a lot of time to expand on the idea right now so hopefully it still translates. You could, of course, design this with an extra dimension of top and bottom flaps to prevent dust from getting into the crevices but I’ve just done it as a simple L bracket for illustrative purposes.
A gap between the devices? It is around 3mm. You can easily get a 4mm piece of black foamcore between them.
Yes that’s what I was referring to as well. It seems nobody build that so guess I’ll have to DIY or get it custom made. Can’t be that expensive as it’s nothing more than 4 bends in a sheet of metal. In a press that seems like less than a 5min job.
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This should work nicely:
https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/rklcdbk
It requires drilling holes (for 2 digis) I suppose but it is relatively cheap on amazon.
If you add a top and bottom to the orange piece it’s exactly 4 bends and drill holes to match the rack. You still need someone to create a 3d cad design that the press machine can read and you need knowledge of how much bounceback the material has, for example you bend something to an angle of exactly 90 it will reject the bend to a certain degree so you have to accommodate for the material rejecting the bend. The gauge of the metal means you have to compensate for the radius of the turns, that’s why you need someone to do a real design. But yeah, I think you have to make it or pay someone to make it bc I don’t know of a product like this already. You may be able to find something vaguely compatible to cut up and repurpose though.
They seem to be showing photos of 2 different products on that product page. One has holes on the sides for depth while the other doesn’t.
Don’t they just hold it place and then press a foot switch or something that makes the press do the bending? Would a CAD design and complicated big press machine really be necessary for something so simple?
In the olden days there was a lot of that type of thing but different materials of different thickness reject being bent in different ways so it’s complicated in that unless there’s someone experienced enough to already have those factors under control you’d very quickly wind up with a pile of wasted materials.
Also, there comes the issue of consistency and mechanical precision. I could do something roughly like this at home with some sheet metal, a couple boards and a hammer or 2, but it wouldn’t be to the degree of precision or consistency you get out of a proper press with a computer assisted design plus proper knowledge. If you’re the same person who wanted professionally made short cables, you probably don’t want your rack filled with a hammered out metal fascia - also the amount of work that goes into “eyeballing” things is (from my experience) usually significantly more involved to get a decent result than it is on planning something from the start using proper tools and design equipment.
A lot of the modern mechanical metal pressing or stamping equipment in many industries is computer controlled as well, so while some old school shops still exist beating out horseshoes and working on hot rod fenders, a lot of places will input data into the machine’s computer and the machine will do the rest of the work.
I became vaguely interested in this topic at some point when I wanted to do a project and became dejected after learning how much there was to a modern metal press/fabrication.
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I’ve posted a VESA bracket that I made to tie the two together here in other threads, but it could be pretty easily be modified to either work with a rack bracket or ears I think.
That said, as much as that sounds like it could be desirable, unless they’re going into an angled rack that’s comfortable to sit in front of, I have to imagine that you’ll get SUPER TIRED of them in a typical vertical rack. They are so hands on, I think the angle would drive one crazy. (just my opinion of course) but I use these machines a lot. I can’t imagine using them like that. (unless angled…)
I can dig up the drawing for my bracket, and see if there’s a good way to adapt it though.
Indeed 100% vertical wouldn’t be ideal. As I’m planning to buy a SSL Big Six (probably next year) I’m thinking about buying or building a desk with 3 racks at a comfortabel angle. Something like this:
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