How are you organizing your spare cable drawer?
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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.
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Why you need so many though?
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Three drawers, divided into USB, A/V, and power supply/adaptors.
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I may be dull, but I'm certainly not organized or motivated!
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You can also just buy an entire reel of velcro tape and cut pieces as needed.
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I don't go through toilet paper quick enough for this to be viable, I'm not waiting years to have a pile of them
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It just feels wrong to throw away cables...
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I used to have a big plastic tub that I just tossed all the cables into. After a few years, it was literally all one piece; no matter where you pulled, the entire thing would come out. It took 5 minutes of untangling to get anything out. My brother called it an abomination.
I bag each type separately, as you do. I have fewer audio cables, so they are also bagged in the same bin, quarter and eighth inch phone cables separately. No Apple stuff. Extras like DE9 serial and MIDI cables. IEC power cables are in the bin, extension cords coiled, hanging from the basement ceiling.
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I joined the conversation only to post this question. To it, you beat me
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I just get a big ziplock and stuff cables in it till its full and get a new one.
I just go through looking for a cable by going "hmm would this be a 2015-2020 cable or a 2010-2015 cable?"
My system is undoubtedly flawed, but it works well enough to not fix it. -
Mine is a cable storage tub, but same way. Baggies.
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It's the one with the spare cables in it is how it's organized. I think there's an old clock, an airbrush and a couple long expired sectional charts in there.
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Just wanna say, this is gorgous
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Thank you! It was a fair amount of work, so that's nice to hear.
