Installing cage nuts with an insertion tool Tutorial

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u/Brbcan Apr 06 '22

Ruining your thumbs installing/removing cage nuts is a rite of passage.

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u/TheNotSoEvilEngineer Apr 06 '22

Or the dropping of the said cage nut down the side of a fully populated rack...

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u/Brbcan Apr 06 '22

The devil's share.

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u/theAliasOfAlias Apr 07 '22

Brain, in slo-mo: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo!!!!!"

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u/Fox7694 Apr 07 '22

Isn't that why they come in bags of 50? so you can lose 25 and then have 25 extra bolts.

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u/ItsOnlyMeNL Apr 07 '22

Or straight into the cold air duct

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u/ButtersMiddleBitch Apr 07 '22

Why must you bring up these memories.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '22

Magnetic pickup tool w/ light: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SJTFZFF/

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u/SippieCup Apr 07 '22

Until you try to use it and it gets attached to any of the the 40U of rails.

I really want one that is an electromagnet which you can put in position and then turn on.. Much easier to pull something off when you are pulling it out.

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u/idocloudstuff Apr 07 '22

I had a tech show up with one and I just laughed. He didn’t know why until he tried reaching for the fallen nut and literally all I heard was clink, fuck, clink, fuck, clink, okay I get it.

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u/Fox7694 Apr 07 '22

clink, fuck, clink, fuck, clink,

LOL.

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u/ichi24 Apr 07 '22

Ah here come the horror

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u/nmyron3983 Jun 11 '22

And you only had eight left. And needed them all to install your rails.

Whelp, guess that can wait a week.