Universal Cable Management Arm? (For a server)

[Scheer]

I'm looking for a cheap-ish universal CMA for a server.

I paid $30 for my HP specific one, but everyone I can find that is universal that mounts to the rack rather than the custom rail is $100... For $70 I'll just make some brackets and buy another HP one and make it work, but would prefer to find a cheaper universal one.

 

Any ideas?

 

This is what I am looking for, but they want $80 for it... and my $30 one is much nicer with a roundover on the joint as well as being a "U" shaped channel, it just has proprietary mounting and won't work with my Norco.

 

[Statik]

I've never seen this before. is this for the desk? Or the rig itself?

[Scheer]

I've never seen this before. is this for the desk? Or the rig itself?

 

It is for a rack mounted server on rails.

[Statik]

It is for a rack mounted server on rails.

Ooh okay.

 

Yeah, not sure on that one, or how it's set up. I was thinking you could easily make ones out of zipties/velcro strips and the rails for drawers, but I highly doubt that would work in this situation.

 

This is beyond my league.

[W-L]

It is for a rack mounted server on rails.

 

Monoprice has some really cheap ones but I'm not sure about compatibility since I'm not very familiar with servers but cable organizers has a lot of stuff like this.

http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=105&cp_id=10516&cs_id=1051607

 

http://www.cableorganizer.com/computer-cabinets/horizontal-cable-management.html

[Scheer]

Monoprice has some really cheap ones but I'm not sure about compatibility since I'm not very familiar with servers but cable organizers has a lot of stuff like this.

http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=105&cp_id=10516&cs_id=1051607

 

http://www.cableorganizer.com/computer-cabinets/horizontal-cable-management.html

 

Those are all unfortunately fixed cable management pieces, I'm looking for one that is hinged so when I pull the server out on the rails the cables do not get tangled/pinched in the other servers or when I close it back up.

 

There is this one, but again at $100 I'd rather just modify a cheaper one. It just seems bizarre to me that nothing cheaper exists for this with how cheap the much nicer proprietary ones are.

http://www.cableorganizer.com/p/black-box-cable-management-arm/

[W-L]

Those are all unfortunately fixed cable management pieces, I'm looking for one that is hinged so when I pull the server out on the rails the cables do not get tangled/pinched in the other servers or when I close it back up.

 

There is this one, but again at $100 I'd rather just modify a cheaper one. It just seems bizarre to me that nothing cheaper exists for this with how cheap the much nicer proprietary ones are.

http://www.cableorganizer.com/p/black-box-cable-management-arm/

 

Oh I see so the cables move forawrd when moving it. How about ones on Ebay or Amazon I see a lot of them for a fairly reasonable price:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-3U-7U-Rack-Cable-Management/dp/B0008F4DVO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1422740512&sr=8-2

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Foxconn-373065-New-Management-Server-Cable-/350716178718?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51a850311e

[Scheer]

Oh I see so the cables move forawrd when moving it. How about ones on Ebay or Amazon I see a lot of them for a fairly reasonable price:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-3U-7U-Rack-Cable-Management/dp/B0008F4DVO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1422740512&sr=8-2

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Foxconn-373065-New-Management-Server-Cable-/350716178718?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51a850311e

 

The first one isn't actually universal, I find it all over the place labeled universal... but it is for intel servers. In the install manual, it requires these rails to mount it to: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-ARIGRACK-Pedestal-Conversion-Chassis/dp/B0002K6Y30

 

The second one is what I already have, it is a proprietary mount where it slips into a bracket and is pinned. I need one that will mount to rack holes. I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up just modifying one as I've been looking randomly throughout the day and cannot come up with anything.

 

Thanks for the help though.