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I recently started using this technique. I love it. It's not too hard to learn how to do it in a functional sense. I don't need to do it well, just tie up some
by klodolph 7y ago
I recently started using this technique. I love it.
It's not too hard to learn how to do it in a functional sense. I don't need to do it well, just tie up some cables.
Whether it's useful depends on how often you are adding or removing cables. It's not a fast technique. I use it for my PC monitors + keyboard + mouse + audio, and it's been much less of a hassle because the wires don't get tangled any more. The real boon is in my audio equipment. For example, I have a (musical) keyboard, and that needs 10' 2x audio + 2x MIDI. Having those cables tied together has made a huge difference, preventing them from getting tangled with other cables, and making it easier to keep them out of the way. I also have a 19" rack of audio equipment, and I use this technique in the back of the rack. Barring equipment failures, I don't expect to change anything in the rack for the next few years.
It's functionally equivalent to using lots of zip ties or velcro ties, and most useful if you have e.g. multiple cables that that traverse the same 10' distance.
- myself248 7y agoFor that use, I would get some Techflex F6 split sleeving, or some of the velcro-closure stuff. Not only does it hold them together, it also provides quite a bit of protection from abrasion if you drag the resulting "snake" around the floor or whatever. The problem with lacing an assembly that might flex, is that the cord keeps the cables from sliding against each other, and makes the assembly very stiff. So any flexing force is concentrated at points where it can overcome that stiffness, and this is bad for the cables long-term. Inside equipment, lacing is used to keep wires from abrading against each other. In an office, it's used to secure them to frames for density, organization, and seismic reasons. In all cases, every piece of connected equipment is rigidly mounted, and no part of the laced form ever has to move relative to any other part.
- klodolph 7y agoThat's what I would get if I were "in industry" and had a lot of cables to deal with. I just have my personal equipment, and one spool of string is very convenient to buy and shove in the closet when I don't need it.
- detaro 7y agoThanks for mentioning the split sleeving, I didn't know about it and that looks quite useful!
- jaclaz 7y agoBesides the "slotted wire duct" described above, which is OK to "tie" cables to a ridgid surface, the other things normally used in the industry (and that work just fine) are spiral cable wraps, example: https://t3.lappcdn.com/typo3temp/_processed_/csm_TOOL_61600010_Application_1_8ba75c9b5e6590e621d8a5b6be153b9fe68d36ff_b7f13fe5d1.jpg https://t3.lappcdn.com/typo3temp/_processed_/csm_TOOL_616000...
- klodolph 7y agoI considered spiral wraps but it's more convenient for me to keep around a spool of string.