TEN-FOUR 10" Mini Rack - Open-Source Homelab Rack Kit

Coming, no date yet. We won't make one up, and you'll hear as soon as there's real news.

The rack, and the drawings for it.

Many 10" racks turn up as a mystery. No spec, stuff all drawings, no idea what the hole spacing actually is until you've measured it yourself with a caliper and a bad attitude.

TEN-FOUR is the opposite. The full interface specification is published, including a 3D Model. So is the supplier list. If you'd rather build one from scratch, everything you need to do that is free and sitting on our website right now. We'd rather you knew that up front than worked it out afterwards.

What you're buying here is the version where someone else already did the sourcing, the cutting, the tolerance-chasing (and the swearing when things don't quite add up like they did in your head!).

Drawings/CADs, a Cut List and Suppliers can be found here.

What it is

A 10" rack frame in 2020 aluminium extrusion with three-way corner connectors and Titan AV rack rails. Hole centres are set at 236.525mm, derived from EIA-310, so anything built to the 10" rack standard bolts straight in.

Open-frame design with the option of a full panel kit for a clean look.

Sized for the usual homelab suspects - mini PCs, Pi clusters, small switches, patch panels, PDUs, NAS builds, and whatever else has been accumulating on the shelf because it wouldn't fit anywhere sensible.

Highly customisable/mod friendly. With the main frame being 2020 aluminium extrusion, T-Nuts and bolts become your best friend in adding mods on all faces (inside and out!), not just on the rails.

What's in the box

A complete kit. Nothing else to buy, no trip to the hardware shop halfway through the build.

• Pre-cut 2020 aluminium extrusion (all uprights and rails)
• Three-way corner connectors
• Titan AV rack rails
• T-nuts and frame fasteners
• Feet
• Hex keys
  

Optional:

• Corner bracket kit (not essential but recommended for extra rigidity if you don't plan on adding cover plates).

Specifications

Assembly

Assembly time is approx. 30 minutes (excluding cover plates). The corner connectors locate the extrusion square, so it goes together right the first time — no set square, no diagonal measuring, no prayer.

Open, and it means something

The interface specification — hole spacing, rail geometry, mounting patterns — is public domain. Build panels and accessories against it, publish them, sell them. No permission needed, no conditions. The standard exists so the ecosystem can grow, and we'd rather it grew than stayed ours.

The design files — CAD, drawings, cut lists — are published under CERN-OHL-S v2, an open hardware licence approved by the Open Source Initiative. Build your own. Modify it. Improve on it. If you pass on hardware made from it, or the design itself, sold or given away, changed or not, you share the design files under the same licence, so the next person gets what you got.

Every component supplier is named on the spec/build page. No mystery parts, no relabelled anything.

That's the deal: you can build this yourself, and we've told you exactly how. What you're paying for is that it's already cut, finished, square and correct.

Shipping

Flat $15 anywhere in Australia. Same rate on every order, every time.

Designed and built in Adelaide, South Australia.