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Smokey:

--- Quote from: MarkF on April 26, 2024, 08:56:57 pm ---My workbench is in a small bedroom and all my parts and cables are kept in the closet.
The clothes shelf in the closet is a wire mesh and I 3D printed a cable hanger to clip
onto the outer edge.


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I do this.  One of these racks on the wall next to the lab bench.  Cables draped through slots.  Bonus feature is you get to also fill the shelf with junk!  Win-Win!

EPAIII:
I have been in electronics for over 55 years and the meter and test cables have always been a problem wherever I have worked as well as in my own shops. Just a few months ago I came up with a new idea and, so far, I really like it.

Being 80 years old I have a number of prescriptions. Being cheap, I have saved the empty, plastic bottles the pharmacy packages them in. All the pharmacies I have used have used a yellow plastic bottle with some kind of child safe cap. A pair of close wire cutters, the type made with sheet metal, makes short work of removing the lock on the bottles that I have collected. I have many, many of my small parts stored in these Rx bottles. For the most part I use the bottles with just the child lock cut off but when I decided to store my meter cables in a couple of them I decided to use my power band saw for metal work to cut the tops completely off, at an angle. I did this due to the shortage of space on my electronic work benches. I plan to make a base for the ones in the first photo with my 3D printer as soon as I can get a round-tuit.

As seen in the second photo this is also a good way to store computer cables as well.

In addition to that, I have literally hundreds of small parts stored in these Rx bottles. I print round labels for the tops and consolidate them in cardboard bins and mini-bins on shelves in my shop.

And the best thing about using these Rx bottles is they are free. Well, I don't pay anything extra for them, that is.



watchmaker:
 :-+

edpalmer42:
I came across an Ikea wire rack for holding stemware glasses at a bar.  I mounted it on the end of one of my shelving units and adjusted the width of the slot so that it holds a BNC connector while allowing the cable to slide in.  I slid vinyl tubing over the rails so that the cables didn't slide on the chrome rails.

I'm going to build another cable holder.  Take a flat piece of wood and mount dowels or threaded rods that are spaced to hold the connectors while allowing the cable to slide between the rods.  Put vinyl tubing over the rods and ensure that the tubing sticks out beyond the end of the rod so that if someone bumps into it they hit vinyl tubing rather than the wood or metal rod.

thermistor-guy:

--- Quote from: nfmax on April 27, 2024, 07:33:10 am ---Each individual cable loosely coiled inside a ziplock bag, with a descriptive label on a card insert. All the bags stacked filing cabinet style (on edge) so the labels are visible, in a drawer. Apart from mains leads, which breed when you don’t look at them.

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I do something similar:

 - coil the cables with generous radius in large ziplock bags;
 - place the bags in stackable transparent storage boxes; label the boxes (3 labels: side, front, top of box);
 - have separate labelled boxes of cables meant for repair or scavenging;
 - have separate labelled boxes for connectors and unterminated cables;
 - have a catch-all box labelled "misc" for odd items.

The idea is to have stacked array of boxes, where it's easy to tell what's inside each one from a glance.

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