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I was thinking about building one of these but I read that IKEA have cut costs on the materials and the legs/table are mostly honeycomb inside so no longer strong enough for something like this.

Would be interested to hear if anyone has any luck with the 'modern' version of the Lack because a lot of the resources you find online are from the 2010s when the table had a more solid structure inside.

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Those legs never were solid. I recall a few videos on YouTube about that, where people put a solid wood insert into them.

I tried that without strengthening but it was to fragile. Got a music rack, tiny one, and shallow, low power rack servers. It was fine but eventually I scrapped all of that due to space issues at home.

BTW Mirkotik now sells a cool homelab worthy rack.

I cut a couple open recently, and the legs are actually hollow. No honeycomb. The top ~40mm and bottom 15mm are wood composite plugs, and the center is air. The skin is about 2.5mm thick wood-ish material with vinyl-ish wrap.

How hard would it be to replace the legs with solid wood ones? From the guide I think you can just drill some holes in the replacement legs and it should work: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/assembly_instructions/lack-coffee...

(Of course, you can make your own tabletop as well!)

Depending on your setting for a lack rack, you’re better off just framing out 2x4s into a box rather than going through the effort of replacing the legs.

I would probably just build one from scratch. Get 4 poles and a board for bottom / top and that should be it. Or buy a second hand small rack with noise isolation.

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