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HOW TO - Cablebone (excess cable organiser)

Radiorental show you how to tidy up all your cables with this simple Instructable - "There are very few things in life that get right under my skin, triping over cables is one of them. I think I may have seen a product like this somewhere - not sure, inspriation being the mother of invention and these are fairly easy to make." Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 16, 2006 01:17 PM
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wouldn't you start getting induction at some point? might be an issue in some applications (e.g. hi-fi).

Posted by: afaust on February 16, 2006 at 9:25 AM

My parents had some clear plastic things resembling this back in the 70s (80s?). Don't know where the acquired them, but they were mass-produced. So I imagine you saw something like this, but homemade is certainly better.

Posted by: triple-e on February 16, 2006 at 10:38 AM

good point. I'm only using these for things that I want to adjust on the fly such as latpop cables, headphones. Wrapping up unsheilded audio cables would need a different method, not sure what people use for that.

Posted by: radiorental on February 16, 2006 at 10:51 AM

Looks like Smartwraps. I use one and it works nicely. I don't know about induction, but I might be concerned about cable fatigue if I did a lot of winding and unwinding.

Posted by: aglee on February 16, 2006 at 12:30 PM

Looks like Smartwraps. I use one and it works nicely. I don't know about induction, but I might be concerned about cable fatigue if I did a lot of winding and unwinding.

Posted by: aglee on February 16, 2006 at 12:31 PM

Looks like Smartwraps. I use one and it works nicely. I don't know about induction, but I might be concerned about cable fatigue if I did a lot of winding and unwinding.

Posted by: aglee on February 16, 2006 at 12:32 PM

Looks like Smartwraps. I use one and it works nicely. I don't know about induction, but I might be concerned about cable fatigue if I did a lot of winding and unwinding.

Posted by: aglee on February 16, 2006 at 12:41 PM

Sorry for the multiple posts. I didn't realize these comments are reverse-chronological, and thought they hadn't gotten through.

Posted by: aglee on February 16, 2006 at 12:43 PM

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