If not,
I'd suggest you use a shelf that's supported at front and rear,
OK, but the shelves I've seen attach to the racks at the same place
where the faceplates would attach to the rack. So how do you
accommodate both?
I suspect you're thinking of what we call "cantilever shelves" like the
ones in the first page Dave suggested (they call them "rack trays") --
they mount on the front of the front column. I mean a rectangular
platform that bolts to the inner faces (not the front or back faces) of
the front and rear columns of the rack. On the ones we have, the
mounting faces of the shelf are /below/ the upper surface.
eg
by pretending your server is a rather thick shelf :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York