How are you organizing your spare cable drawer?
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mind sharing those .STLs?
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Clear plastic bins full of toilet paper rolls with the cables folded and inserted so that both ends stick out upwards. Keeps everything tidy and visible at a glance.
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I have a few small totes. I have a few categories: USB, networking, computer internals (SATA), power, A/V. From there, I just coil them up and hope for the best. I still have to hunt a little to find stuff, but the vague categories makes it a lot easier.
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I have all the "USB-A to ?" cables rubber banded together at the opposite end. That way I can find the non USBA side that I need quickly.
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Guys organize your cable drawer?
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velcro ties, in fabric grocery bags
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I use a combination of zip lock bags and small cardboard boxes with the contents written on the outside.
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Things like this make me think of the only good advice from Jordan Peterson.
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If you have Ethernet cables that are old or have damaged ends in your pile just sacrifice them to make your own cable ties. Cut it into pieces as long as you need to wrap your other cables and in each section you cut you get four twist ties.
Cheap, readily at hand, and if the cables were bad you can call it recycling.
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You'll make the bidet people cry
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You can use a bidet to keep the cables in, too
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Buy a refrigerator box, write "CABLES" on every side and put all cables in the box
Sorted
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I don't, they're everywhere
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I only keep one spare of each type.
I use cable ties to keep them coiled
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Then how do you keep your spare spare cable drawer sorted?
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There's not really enough to sort. I just put them in a box.
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I just put all of them on a cooler... It looks like spaghetti
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Organize?
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What's that?
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Sure! Here are the cable organizers and "magazine".
The magazine is for a gridfinity setup but I modified it to work with my printed Skadis panels, which are in turn a heavily modified version of this openscad model with a custom "wedge" mount to lock the panel tighter onto the wedges as more weight is added. My customizations aren't shared anywhere, but if you're interested, I'll put them up on printables.
