Post #1081854
2025-02-12 18:00 UTC
Replies (34)
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@kajer@infosec.exchange 2025-02-12 18:05
@mikesiegel This changed my life - https://www.racksolutions.com/cage-nut-tool.html
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@jessicaddooley@infosec.exchange 2025-02-12 18:09
@mikesiegel ... Probably.
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@WarySec@hachyderm.io 2025-02-12 18:21
@mikesiegel I had blocked these stupid things from my memory. They were always even tougher because your hands are cold in a datacenter. Racking servers always exacted a blood price.
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@vmstan@vmst.io 2025-02-12 18:41
@mikesiegel I remember the first time someone busted out their installer for these.
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@wolf480pl@mstdn.io 2025-02-12 19:45
@mikesiegel (haven't tried these but heard they're much better than cage nuts)
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@lhaig@hachyderm.io 2025-02-12 20:10
@mikesiegel wow even the special tools still hurt like hell
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@seanhood@hachyderm.io 2025-02-12 20:27
@mikesiegel Tbh, terraform can be just as painful
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@beaumains@eigenmagic.net 2025-02-12 20:40
@mikesiegel I maintain a cloud, these are still required. They just outsourced the pain. :neocat_glare_sob:
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@RichiH@chaos.social 2025-02-12 20:43
@mikesiegel Over the years, I got three of the shaped sheet spring steel things. I have not done this job for ten years. I still have them in my cellar, know precisely where they are, and will never lend or give them away. Because, fingers.
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@anotherwalther@mastodon.social 2025-02-12 21:01
@mikesiegel ow, i can still feel this picture, years later
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@OptiplexPrime@mastodon.social 2025-02-12 21:19
@mikesiegel I have spent more time trying to install/remove those than racking servers so far.
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@kyhwana@social.furry.nz 2025-02-12 21:25
@mikesiegel and then I discovered https://www.rackstuds.com/what-are-rackstuds and all was right in the rack mounting world again
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@varimbehphen@transfem.social 2025-02-12 21:37
@mikesiegel@infosec.exchange I...I can't exactly say that you're wrong here.
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@pq1r@tech.lgbt 2025-02-12 22:21
@mikesiegel These definitely made sure my DNA has been left behind in some data centres.
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@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org 2025-02-12 22:32
@mikesiegel Some of us still keep the One True Faith.
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@boscoandpeck@universeodon.com 2025-02-12 22:51
@mikesiegel oh I hate those
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@alarig@hostux.social 2025-02-12 22:54
@mikesiegel @aegiap flat screwdriver to the rescue
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@mboelen@mastodon.social 2025-02-12 23:17
@mikesiegel You can move back: https://www.rackstuds.com/ #Rackmount #SelfHosting
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@thor@mast.ttk.is 2025-02-12 23:26
@mikesiegel nah, just upgraded the hardware and got tool-free rails. Gamechanger!
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@aaronbieber@indieweb.social 2025-02-12 23:29
@mikesiegel HEARD
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@AngelaScholder@mastodon.energy 2025-02-13 00:05
@mikesiegel OK, true, they are an absolute pain to install.
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@Nux@fosstodon.org 2025-02-13 00:19
@mikesiegel hello cage nut, my old friieeend! 😂
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@grissallia@aus.social 2025-02-13 00:30
@mikesiegel [rage mode on]
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@mike@mastodon.downstairsgeek.com 2025-02-13 03:30
@jay Just tag me next time.. geez.. :-p
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@alterelefant@mastodontech.de 2025-02-13 04:33
@mikesiegel I used to have a little tool for that.
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@tisha@htt.social 2025-02-13 11:14
@mikesiegel Fair point 😹
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@wiert@mastodon.social 2025-02-13 11:31
@mikesiegel @bert_hubert These cage nut tool https://www.amazon.de/-/en/kwmobile-Pliers-Cage-Nuts-Size/dp/B07ZJB7HCX are pliers that look like an oversised nail clipper, and works in a very similar way.
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@jruys@mastodon.social 2025-02-13 11:48
My fingers hurt just by looking at this picture 😖
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@silvermoon82@wandering.shop 2025-02-13 11:58
@mikesiegel The cloud is just someone else's cage nuts. Good.
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@kevin@mastodon.km6g.us 2025-02-13 12:31
@mikesiegel I switched to Rack Studs: https://www.rackstuds.com/buy
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@soulfirethewolf@wetdry.world 2025-02-13 13:55
I feel bad I don’t know what these are
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@ulexus@fosstodon.org 2025-02-13 14:44
@mikesiegel The cage nut tools are amazing, fantastic, and such that I wish I had discovered them *so* many years earlier.
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@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org 2025-02-13 16:54
@mikesiegel Eh, you know the computer will work when you make the blood sacrifice to the cage nuts.
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@mp362@universeodon.com 2025-02-13 20:03
@mikesiegel I've worked on hundreds of racks in my working life. I don't think I've ever walked away from one without finding my hands and arms covered in micro-cuts, which sting like hell because once you're out of the nice, air-conditioned machine room, your body starts to sweat and salt the wounds. Ouch!