 Time here for more systems and rack studs sent me a bag of these unannounced. We are happy to have them, but I want to break them so you don't have to. So you don't end up with a piece of equipment laying on the floor because you put something into heavy. I want to know how much will these handle what kind of weight. Now, normally when these install and I have my little sample piece of rack here, if you have something that's fully installed front and back, you're just going to be testing the strength they can have handle up and down. But I wanted to know specifically with a tray, which seems a pretty popular solution. Please put trays in so you're not just stacking things on top of switches. But if you have a heavy switch, they have like a pole to them the way they want to flex and the way they want to pull back. And today we've got all these weights set up on the floor over here and this installed. We installed it properly, so to speak. We didn't want to put it so it fell inside. We have it falling outside, but that also means we reversed the way the rack studs are. So we're properly testing of whether or not essentially what I think this might happen is this peer speculation that they will pull out when we put enough weight on there. Now we're going to figure out just how much weight that is. And this is by no means scientific. This is just me being curious. We'll document how much weight was on here, but we're not going to probably know exactly where the failure is. But we're going to get a pretty good idea of at least what will go on there. And before we go into breaking some studs, let's first. If you'd like to learn more about me and my company, head over to LawrenceSystems.com. If you'd like to hire a short project, there's a hires button right at the top. If you'd like to help keep this channel sponsor free and thank you to everyone who already has, there is a join button here for YouTube and a Patreon page. Your support is greatly appreciated. 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If I was going to do that, I'd say, well, let's take that off and do a 35. All right. It definitely holds 25 on this rack. Let's go to 35. We're going to 35 here. Ooh. The 35 pounds holding. All right. 45? We're going to go 45. The rack moved. I don't know. Those studs, are they just forming a little bit? I don't know. All right. I'm going to put the shelf flex. The shelf is flexing. We're not sure what's going to break first. We're learning as you're watching this video. So this is not staged. All right. Staged some more weight on it though. Oh, we're at 60. 65. 65 pounds. I'm impressed. I feel... I'm going to watch as you sit this on there. 67 and a half. 67 and a half pounds. Now I don't have the scientific measurement to know exactly how much pressure is put on there. This is creating a lot of leverage as it tilts it. Essentially, this way it's pulling the rack studs very... Oh, wow. What? Okay. They're definitely...the rack studs are... Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're bowing a little bit. This one's really starting to pull. So this is what the rack stud looks like. You can kind of see it from here. It's no longer aligned. So we're realizing it's definitely getting ready to snap. So hopefully we're going to put the camera in slow motion mode and hopefully get the snapping. 80? 75. 75? Okay. Wow. I feel like we're about to watch a rack stud fly. I'm watching it. It feels like it's disforming a lot more now. Oh. Oh. 80. Oh, hold on. Hold on. We're not helping too much. 80. Yeah. What's 80? But now the 80's moved forward. We're a little off-center. We're a little off-center. Okay. Well, here. Hold on. Stick something in the hole so they don't slide down. No. Put the 10 on it. Put the 10? All right. Oh, yeah. We can eat something, doc. Yeah. The rack studs are reaching their limit. Hold on. What's this now? 80. 80. Okay. That's a 45 and a 35. All right. 80. All right. We're disforming. This is going to break. This is getting tense. We should have done this as a live stream. Oh. 85. 85 pounds. That's where these break. All right. We have our answer. Now, the question's going to be, and we're going to drop this 85 pounds on here, and we're going to test the standard rack nuts. Kage nuts? Rack nuts? Kage nuts. Kage nuts. We're going to test the standard ones real quick, so we're going to kind of reset for this, but that was great, and that was actually rather loud. My ears are ringing. The project has been reset with proper metal ones, and we are just going to jump right to, what, 80 pounds on this? Yeah. We're going to jump right to it, because we know that at least hold that. We'll see where these ones break, or just bend the hell out of my rack. We're not sure what's just going to happen. I can see it bowing our rack a little bit here. It is. I have a feeling this is... It says 90. We're at 90. Just make it an even 100. Yeah. 105. There we go. 105, because that fits in there without sliding off. All right. We're at 105. I think I wouldn't leave a server sitting on a 105. Like, if you had a 105 pound server, don't leave it on a shelf like this, because the shelf's bowing. Yeah, put it on. Put it on properly, but if you have a 10 pound free NAS, 10, 12 pound free NAS, I think that's... 20 pound free NAS. 20 pound free NAS. I think we're good to set it there. So our conclusion from this video, and maybe your conclusion too, is going to be you didn't measure proper weight, you didn't center it on... What are the other things you guys are going to be in the comments on this of everything we did wrong? Well, this is actually... It's centered to the shelf, which is how if you had the shelf installed, and you were putting things on it, you would have a weight evenly distributed amongst the shelf. So actually, yes, the shelf was used as intended. Right. So as I stated at the very beginning of this video, not the most scientific method, but we do see what happens when the rack studs fail, the way it sheared them off. I found it kind of interesting to see that level of detail of how they broke, and hey, at least we know what the failure point is and what the failure looks like with the rack studs. And I'm actually pretty impressed. That's more weight than you should ever put on the shelf. I honestly thought the thread portion would fail where just the black cap slid off of the threads. Yeah. It did not. It doesn't show how it's threaded. It breaks in a different spot. So the less than scientific conclusion is that these will handle 85 pounds as we distributed it in the center of that particular rack shelf. Both of the bottom ones pulled out and snapped. Well, pretty much identical. You can't hardly tell which one this goes to, this one, or that one. It broke exactly in the same spot. There's some product consistency there. They sheared the same distance. So I can't tell which one of these is from which. That is definitely solid the way they sheared off, as expected in exactly the same spot for the top ones. So our less than perfect science, but at least a good understanding, is that yes, these will hold quite a bit of weight, more than the weight thing you'll probably putting on a shelf, and definitely more than most of your switches are going to weigh that you'll be putting these in. So I would conclude that these are still solid to use. I trust them much more than I did at the beginning of the video. I'd like to thank Rackstuds for randomly shipping me a box of these. They had no influence or idea I was making this video. I did this video because, one, I thought it was interesting, and two, you, the audience, seemed to think it'd be an interesting idea as well. So I hope you enjoyed it. Let me know what other content or things I should stress test, because I don't want anyone's equipment falling. 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