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Your post inspired a random but genuine question: Does anyone have a good use for obsolete cables? Like, I've got some serial cables, some co-ax, a bunch of o
by MikeTheGreat 3y ago
Your post inspired a random but genuine question:
Does anyone have a good use for obsolete cables?
Like, I've got some serial cables, some co-ax, a bunch of old TV cables, some audio cables.
I tell myself I'm keeping them because if I ever need them I'll never be able to (or want to) buy them again. Moreover it feels like such a waste to throw them away.
Maybe a makerspace could make use of them?
- aareet 3y agoYou could make some sort of art - in the climbing community old ropes often become chalk bags or carpets etc.
- abakker 3y agoYou've made me imagine a doormat made out of old cat5 and usb cables, and I'm horrified in an amused kind of way.
- jonah 3y agoMy local search and rescue team made door mats for their station with old 1/2" ropes. They came out really nicely. Doing so with serial or coax cables seems like an invitation for bits of the plastic sheath breaking off in a few months and polluting the ground around your door though...
- dekhn 3y agoI'm holding on to my coax for a few more years and then getting rid of all of it (electronics recycling, probably). I am so looking forward to never using coax again.
- EasyMark 3y agoI have a box in my garage and if cables start overflowing I go through and toss anything that makes it overflow that seems the least useful or likely to be used. It keeps me from starting a new box. :) . I have another box of old gadgets in static bags but I still have a ton of room left in that :)