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 know for the 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 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 haven't falling outside, but that also means we reversed where the rack studs are. So we're properly testing a weather not. Essentially what I think is might happen is this pure 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 feel like to learn more about me and my company head over to LawrenceSystem.com. If you'd like to hire a sure 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. What's 45? We're going to go 45. The rack moved. I don't know. Are those studs, are they just forming a little bit? I don't know. All right. The shelf flex. The shelf is flexy. 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 somewhere way down, 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, yeah, they're bowing a little bit. This one's really starting to pull. So this is what the rack stud looks like. And 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. Oh my. It's tilting too much. 80? Yeah. What's 80? But now they're 80s move forward. We're a little off center. We're a little off center. Okay. Hold on. Stick something in a hole so they don't slide down. No. No. Put the 10 on it. Put the 10. All right. Oh, yeah. We can eat something down. 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. They're disforming. This is going to break. This is getting tense. We should have done this as a live stream. Oh. 85. 85. Founds. That's where these break. All right. We have our answer. Now, the question is going to be, and we're going to drop this 85 pounds on here, and we're going to test the standard rack nuts. Rack cage nuts, rack nuts. Cage nuts. That's a standard one's real quick. So we're going to kind of reset for this, but that was great. That was actually rather loud. My ears are ringing. The project has been reset with proper metal ones, and we're just going to jump right to what 80 pounds on this. Yeah. We're going to jump right to it. 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 which is going to happen. I can see it bowing our rack a little bit here. It is. I haven't feeling this is 90. We're at 90. Just make it an even 100. Yeah. One on five. There we go. One on five, because I have 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 get 105 pound server, don't leave it on a shelf like this, because it's the shelf's bowing. The shelf is on. Put it on properly. But if you have a 10 pound free-nass, 10, 12 pound free-nass, I think that's 20 pound free-nass. 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 weights. You didn't center it. One of the other things you guys are going to be in the comments on this, is everything we did wrong. Well, this is actually a center 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 shelves. Actually, yes, the shelf was used as intended. Right. As I stated, it very begins for you. 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 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 this shelf. I honestly thought the thread portion would fail, where just the black caps lit 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. I can't tell which one of these is from which. That is definitely solid the way they sheared off as expected and 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 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 rack studs 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 would 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. So I would like, if there's something you need to know related to this, let me know in the comments. I do read those and hope you enjoyed this. Like I said, thank you. 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