Review on 🔴 Rackstuds R20: The Revolutionary No-Cage Nut Rack Mount Solution - 20-Pack, Red, 2.2mm Version by Roman Niko

Other reviewers miss the point. Bro, do you even do rackmount? The manufacturer also misses the point in advertising. They do an absolutely terrible job of promoting the true merits of their overpriced product. (Price will be the last item in my review). Cage nuts are easy to install and remove. You can use an expensive $35 tool or a cheap $1 tool. Or a screwdriver. For about $10 you can get a Toyota Camry-level tool that just gets the job done and needs nothing else to look at. For $35 and up, you can get a Ferrari-level tool that's overpriced, does its job no better than the Camry, but gives the owner extra satisfaction. Regardless of tool choice, installing and removing a cage nut is a solvable problem. The real problems these tools solve are: 1. Quality of the cage nuts everywhere. People buy dirty cheap unbranded Chinacom nuts and then complain they suck. Spirit. Buy APC or other brand name for stable operation. Even then, the cost is still in the air, so why bother with pennies. Just like your main bolt and nut, which you can't seem to screw up, it turns out these things are actually precision parts that need careful quality control. while the shelf stands are of consistently high quality from a single source. You can't buy a poorly performing device—yet.2. If you have particularly fat fingers or are not dexterous, you can drop the cage nuts when extending or retracting them. There are times when this causes problems. the design of the rack does not exclude falling (especially the yellow "disc”), but since they are serviced entirely from the front without tools, the risk is very, very reduced.3. Cage nuts have their own play. especially vertically. Sometimes it can happen that something does not fit in the hole intended for it, since the tolerances are eaten away by the play of the cage nut and the different play of the device's mounting lugs. sometimes you need to solve the surrounding equipment. not super terrible, but still annoying. It's impossible to fit something "dead center" into the space provided for it in the rack. Usually everything is within the lower limit that the cage nut offers and you may end up with a device that doesn't fit properly. It also puts some pressure on the captive mother, although I've personally never experienced failure from this. This can be more of a problem for shelves that need to be shipped, while shelf posts have no detectable play, just an inherent tolerance of the part itself. The rail itself is always exactly in the middle of the slot. The only vertical tilt is due to the spacing of the device's mounting lug holes.4. Depending on the manufacturer, cage nuts often make it impossible to attach anything firmly/flat/perpendicular to the rails. The nut itself often cannot securely attach to the cage as if the nut/cage/rail assembly was a single piece, so you end up with units and shelves that inherently wobble. this can be very annoying in some situations. While rack posts fit perfectly into the rail as a fixed knot, giving you a flat bearing surface for your gear to mate with. the best for later! especially since cage nuts do not serve as a guide for installing the device on heavier devices. If you have a gap underneath, you have to balance the device very awkwardly by tightening 2 screws to fix it. Due to the great depth of most equipment, even a few pounds can be difficult. and the smaller the hole at the bottom, the harder it is because you can't get down that well. it can be very difficult. I've never heard of anyone else doing this, but I use 2 long shoulder bolts as guides, similar to how guide pins can be used to mount wheels to bolt-on racks like BMW's. (American cars use studs rather than studs.) The solution, while simple, is annoying and requires an extra unnecessary installation/removal step, whereas rack studs are studs. So you have built-in install/uninstall guide. ========== Now for the cons.1. the price is absolutely horrendous. definitely not worth it. I think they missed a mark on the price volume curve. obviously they are practically free to produce (plastic basically costs nothing). Sure, they put a lot of design work into it and want to maximize returns early, but at this price point, they kill the volume in my opinion. Made in New Zealand which increases the cost but it's still plastic.2. I wish they made a version with a nut for attaching devices with captive screws. All advantages of 1-4 above still apply to cage nuts. probably it should have had a rivnut insert. My guess is that the plastic threads must be shaped differently than the metal threads. As a side note: COUNT your bobby pins. Amazon sent me a package missing many bolts and all thumbscrews/nuts. It was clearly a client return, sending back a useless degenerate waste of space after using the heap. If the price had been more reasonable this would not have happened. or when Amazon throws away returns instead of inventorying them as new. They come in a ziplock bag that doesn't show it's ever been opened. Racks should use a sealed pouch rather than breaking the seal on first use. If the thumbscrews weren't missing, I wouldn't have realized I had a short on the lugs as well. <breathe>