That reminds me of the time I had to go stick some ram in a box in a data centre. As it was fully managed we found out when we got there all they had was telecoms racks and there was a huge pile of DL380’s stacked on top of each other. Mine was at the bottom. We jacked 9 machines up carefully with 4 people and a pile of Oreilly books and slid the node out carefully while everything was live.
It can be done 
As someone who's day job is in a datacenter, I feel this.
A sneaky peek at some of the shit that exists out there..... last week I had to lift a couple of live Juniper (crap!) routers up in the racks to fit servers underneath, while live and serving traffic. A couple years of connections, disconnections and general 'not my job' fuckery...
This one isn't a big router by any stretch of the imagination (we have some DWDM's and stuff that are serving in the terabit range now), but basically each port is a 100G connection.
(With a co-worker expressing the general sentiment at the whole situation... 
)
So, if you come to Tokyo and download your WiniOS updates, Netflix, whatevers, etc, etc and it's nice and fast, you're welcome. If it's slow, don't blame me, I've already knocked off for the day!
That is impressive stack of hardware!
At the home level, I have a chance to look at some Cisco 7301, TP-Link TL-R600VPN and Juniper SRX240. Any recommendations on these?
The real reason for visiting this particular seller is for HPAK E3611A and E3612A PSUs. (I already have a E3610A).
It could be dangerous to the budget, as they also have a Rosenberger 32W100-016 RF Connector Torque Wrench, and some GPS timing antennae, plus others.
We will see what I come home with...
I will probably spend far more than what I made from selling off the tractor forklift attachment ... 
On a simply brand name front, recently Juniper has been total crap. We have had literally a 50% failure rate with new DOA units. We're not talking about cheap units either, more like their QFX10002-72Q type units (72 100G ports type thing) as well as their QFX5100 series too, Just RMA'd one of each in a new rack this/last week, there are two of each in the rack........
Earlier Junipers were fine, so if the one you are looking at is an older (like say a year or more) then it's gonna be ok, and being second hand it's proven itself, but Juniper have really been penny pinching of late, and it
realllly shows.
We don't use TP-link at work, but I've had good experiences with them for SOHO use.
Cisco seem good, never had any real issues, but we phased the switches out a while back as service contracts ended and replaced with the (fkn!) Junipers and our own customised routers/switches. I actually just scrapped a pair of C3172C (or similar) Cisco's with the 10g ports last week actually.
Also, those HP's PSU's are good. I got a bunch of them on my bench and use them all the time. I like using the E3612A for testing leakage on higher voltage electrolytic capacitors.
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