Hoping someone has a recommendation for an in-place 90deg rotating rack? We've got a wide, moderately deep closet with a skinny door opening, such that pullout would not extend fully pass the door, and even if it did would be restricted by door frame width (or lack thereof).

So hoping to find a approx 19" wide rack that bolts down and rotates in place. Thank you!

Oh it needn't be a rack, an in place rotating shelf may work. E.g.we'd considered the REB18, but had to scrap it because it only rotates 60deg :-(

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avrack does offer this. But prepared to be shocked at not on the price but the fiber board with laminate and plastic trim! Unless they have changed this, there is no way I will ever buy from them again. After building it, one would think it was $89 from walmart.

Bolt a Middle Atlantic rack of your choice to an industrial strength lazy susan. I've seen them up to 15" diameter and rated for 1000 lbs.

How much rack space do you need? If there isn't a lot of equipment (weight) you could use a small "knock down" rack. Have your cables long enough so that you can wire the knock down rack up while sitting in the floor. Once its wired lift the whole thing up and put it inside of the cabinet with the bundled cable behind it.

I think it was 3Pedal or Storch (but it may have been someone else) that posted pics of this a while back. Finished install looks perfect and its much better than fighting a rotating or slide out rack.

Ignore my last post. I just reread your post. You can't pull the rack out because the door opening is too small.

Option A: Have someone put a real door in place so you don't have to rig something up that will suck the whole time you are wiring it up and every time you have to service it.

Option B. Put wheels/castors on any rack and spin it any direction you want.

How wide is the opening inside the closet? How far back can you push the cabinet when rotating it? Assuming counterclockwise movement, the front right corner will come forward as you rotate the cabinet, then the rear right corner will approach the door frame a few inches out to the right.

I don't know how deep you need the rack to be, but let's assume you get it 19" deep. That makes the diagonal 26.866 inches; half of that is 13.433 inches, or about 4" wider than the rack. Remember that this is 4" more to the right and to the left. How you place the cabinet affects how this added size restricts or allows the rotation of the cabinet.

I agree with Mac. A MA rack, shallow with castors. If you can get the rack in the closet it should slide out. The slide out racks that use the MA track system have up to 50 inches of slide out. How could you not possibly get behind the rack then. I guess without a picture it is hard to see the problem.

The slide out system works great but it increases costs. If wiring three racks with primo equipment, it's not a big deal. If it's a single system, the time and even the added wire for the festoon is costly compared to a setup that you can rotate. And there's not always the height for the rail system. And the rails and trestles have to be stored somewhere.

It's worked for me on many occasions.....including my own home.

If you have don't have the available height for castors and the floor is a smooth surface,"sliders" work better than you would ever imagine.
Actually better than castors.They always go in the right direction!

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To my chagrin, I don't have the exact interior measurements of closet - I took them, but then fk me if I didn't lose them. I *do* know that the closet opening (from door to door frame) is just under 19 1/4". The closet is relatively deep and moderately wide; not including the less wide section of door framing, closet is 26-27" wide and about 32" deep.

Too it's a raised closet, closet floor is about 10" above the room's floor; so a rolling rack (the freaking SLIM5 which would have been ideal!) is out :( See picture below.



Not a lot of equipment going in there, list follows:
- Wattbox WB-600CH-SVCE-12
- RTI AD8x
- Parasound 275 amp
- Denon X2100
- RTI XP6
- Pair of Sonos Connect
- Airport Express
- Netgear GS108
- Possibly a pair of Parasound Zamps

Tell the contractor/whom ever designed that door opening they are idiots. Who in their right mind designs a closet with a 19" door? Did you not have a discussion with the builder/homeowner to discuss this closet and inform that a 19" opening wasn't going to work with a rack system?

The presumption that we were involved during construction is incorrect, we were brought in months after finish.

The slim 5 is the only option you really have. The rack is 19.125" wide so it should be able to move through the door.
The issue is that the widest part of the rack when you try and turn it around inside the closet is 27.67", so it's too wide to rotate it.

You will have to make a platform you can move into place in front of the closet so you can move the rack out (on castors) of the closet. Tell the homeowners to keep the platform somewhere you can get to it when needed.

You may have to remove the door to make a little more room when installing. You could also use a taller rack and have a little space to either crawl through or be able to pull your upper body through and sit on a MA as3-22 to be able to access the rear of the gear after you install the rack.

Where you planning on placing the rack in front of the white built in shelving unit? Is there space?