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The Art of Cable Folding
Mudzy writes "Nothing is worst than a bunch of dangling cables inside your computer case. The Tech Zone has a cool article up showing how to do Voodoo PC style cable folds. "
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Zero replies and slashdotted. Well done, Tech Zone. That must be some hot server setup you have their. ;)
Come on, I've been doing this for years without even thinking about it, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Like, wooow, you can actually fold the cables! :-)
Martin
Besides, folding IDE cables an art? Ptoii! Terminating SCSI cables is an art, this is just the locals peddling handicraft to tourists. What is this, national "Bend a cable, get on Slashdot"-day?
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That's too bad about the Art Cable. Does anyone know why they're folding? Lack of funding, perhaps?
do you mean "The Art Of Cable Folding"???
99% of my cables are round, 1% are flat. My cable management tasks are going to concentrate on the round ones that I see and in some case trip over.
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But it's a bit lossy.
Cables are living organisms. I fold them neatly and put them in a box. The next time I open the box its a complete mess.
There are a few options here:
1) Use SATA/SAS/Fiber connectors
2) Buy rounded versions of the parralel cables
3) - Carefully shred the normal cables,
- Wrap them in foil if you want
- Wrap them in some pipe/heat shrink.
Then all you do is bend the things and run them around the case with cable ties.
How on earth is this news?
Thats like saying use cables of only the length you need to make less clutter in your case.
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Here are some tricks I use to fold and hide cable in my pc.
First, any ribbon cables usually go from motherboard to drive, and not a very long distance. This leaves a lot of slack ribbon. Fold up the slack and tuck it into a space in-between drives or in an emtpy 3.5" drive bay.
Circle around back. Most modern cases have a pull out try with the motherboard on it. Then there is a metal frame and then there is another piece of metal which is the right side panel of the case. There are many things that need to go from the top of the case to the bottom Such as power cables for your front intake fan and such. Route these wires in-between the metal frame and the right side panel. Nobody can see them back there unless it is an all acrylic case.
The emtpy 5.25" drive bays, if any, are a great place to put extra wiring. My PSU has many many more wires than I use, so far. So I take them all and just put them in the empty space under my dvd burner. The ribbon cable for the burner also travels into this space and then out of it again just a couple inches from the ide plug on the motherboard. Think of it as a bucket to put unused wires in where nobody can see them.
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You got to know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away and know when to run.
Today, computer building is dominated by "tech" articles about... folded cables.
THIS ISN'T PROGRESS, PEOPLE!
The server has been slashdotted, so maybe someone who got to it early can tell me:
"Do Voodoo Cable Folds involve a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle?"
I'm folding?
This story could be the ultimate Slashdot troll, think about it:
1. Put a worthless story up on the front page.
2. Add grammatical mistakes.
2. Turn the server off once it makes it to the front page.
Watch as the worthless, pointless discussion racks up posts 99.9% of which are on the 3 subjects above.
Philip
Signatures are broken
In the world of roadies and pro audio nerds, there's a method for cable folding/wrapping that I learned years ago. It's popularly called the "over/under method".
The idea is to wrap the cable in such a way that, when thrown, it will unravel perfectly without any knots or tangles; but it's still useful for smaller cables because it trains the shielding in such a way that promotes flexibility and prevents twists, curves, and tangles.
Stagecraft has a video demonstration of how to do it (QuickTime, AVI, RealMedia), and the Internet Sound Institute has a tutorial with diagrams.