show your (DIY) cableholder - Page 1
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author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2017, 06:28:12 pm
content: Show us your cableholders and nice DIY solutions

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2017, 06:32:14 pm
content: My cableholder, finished today, I went for functionality with minimum time instead of perfect looks.Ingredients:- Laminated MDF base- Wooden sideskirts in primer.- standard central heating pipe 15mm- rubber stops 14mm- micro Cable tray- foamplastick (in the tray to block the wire a bit to make sure the cable does not roll off on its own)

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2017, 06:38:55 pm
content: I'm assuming you mean a cable holder for hanging test leads rather than cable routing, but an array of plastic coated terry clips, oriented vertically, on a board work well. eg:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TERRY-CLIP-CoatedClipCoUK-Closed-Type-6mm-to-25mm-MULTI-LISTING-5-or-10-PACK-/391602920259?var=&hash=item5b2d5a5b43:m:mtZjM8wJEYAzlo5RJYWIguAActually they are very useful for sorting out your mains cable routing too!EDIT: Oops, I see what you mean now - nice job!

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2017, 06:44:10 pm
content: Quote from: Gyro on January 21, 2017, 06:38:55 pmAlso very interesting subject, go ahead and post what you made or bought, can be another project

author: picitup
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 23, 2017, 09:10:46 am
content: Not quite as glamorous as @Kjelt but here's a couple of neck tie racks from fleabay like item 282330351795. It's good for single wire leads, but not so good for full thickness BNC cables

author: pieman103021
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2017, 02:16:19 am
content: Quote from: picitup on January 23, 2017, 09:10:46 amI actually really like this for alligator clip storage. It is for sure better than my tangled pile.

author: Cerebus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2017, 03:10:32 am
content: Quote from: Kjelt on January 21, 2017, 06:28:12 pmSomehow I was expecting a lot of pictures of put-upon wives and children clutching cables.

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2017, 07:44:03 am
content: Quote from: Cerebus on January 24, 2017, 03:10:32 amNo I use my children purely for holding the fresh long spaghetti strings till they are dry. You have to have priorities

author: picitup
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2017, 08:17:15 am
content: Thanks @pieman103021.Here in the UK we send our kids up the chimney to clean them. Just the young ones though, as the older ones get stuck :-)

author: hli
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2017, 10:46:32 pm
content: Made this with my 3D printer. I actually would need to split this into two, since its as large as I could fit on the build plate, but needs to be 5cm longer

author: JacquesBBB
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2017, 11:01:02 pm
content: I dont know if this qualifies for DIY,the effort was close to zero as well as the cost.But these heating pipes are across my workshop and make perfect support for cables.I wish I could sometimes push the pipes a little bit aside, but this would be real work !!

author: aandrew
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2017, 03:18:59 am
content: Nothing fancy. Some 26AWG between two shelf brackets, and the alligator clips grabbing it:

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2017, 08:13:54 am
content: Those are some really opportunistic and creative solutions

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2017, 01:52:41 pm
content: Being in Sweden, nothing better than an Ikea cable holder (with attached kitchen).Coincidentally, that's the spirits compartment: double handiness!

author: Fortran
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2017, 02:09:33 pm
content: I made mine of 5mm sheet ABS and a CNC router.Glued together with acetone, and using O-rings to keep the cables in place.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2017, 02:25:08 pm
content: Is it OK to keep oscilloscope probes hanging in half from a normal hanger for a long time? Any advice about this, please?I'm afraid the bending radius will be too small, but storing and un-storing them wired in a box seems too big of a hassle.Later edit (forgot to add the pics)These old CD boxes are good, but only to keep the smell inside and the dust outside, and only for rarely used ordinary cables:

author: rich
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2017, 08:39:45 pm
content: Quote from: Fortran on January 25, 2017, 02:09:33 pmLike the O-rings, that's a nice touchWatching this thread with interest as I've not yet found a perfect solution over the years.