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    Cable Tidy-ing

    Ive got oodles of cables behind my TV and im wanting to tidy them up. Not being one for imagination or patience, I just usually sling em in and leave em. Theyre behind the telly, who can see them?

    Well, having looked around a few places at cable tidies, ive got into the idea of having them really neat. So what tools and/or equipment are best? Im looking for a no spend or little spend fix. Just trying to make it look semi decent and tidy.

    Will probably just end up cable tieing them, but what about those JML zip tie things? anyone know of any good tips or tricks?

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    I usually just use tie wraps. IF you need to cut them off and re do your cables they they are cheap to replace. You can get a big bucket of them in Maplin for about £10 i think (something like that anyway) of all different colours which is handy for identifying different systems.

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    Sod the lot of them, you start laying them out all neat, then you need to take your cube round to your mates, and you have to unravel everything, which takes about half an hour, then you have to plug everything back in, which takes even longer.

    Unneccesary ballache imo

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    Cables... urgh indeed

    Want a top tip - heres what I've done ?

    Get an OLD piece of plastic tubing, similar width to the ones used for drains in homes and cut a length of this to go on the wall.

    Cut the length you require - measuring 1" below the items level/table/height and then make it about 1" from the floor.

    Get the Pipe and then cut all the way down the pipe and repeat moving about 1-2cm left or right. Now you should have a more of a C shaped plastic cutting.

    Take 2 of the plastic clips that you get for the drain pipes to attach them to the wall and place them where the plastic tube would be located. Feed the cables into the tube, allowing adequate movement for plugs and whatnot.

    its a 10 min job, easy to do, keeps the cables "fairly" tidy and stops pets chewing them

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    One word: sellotape.

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    Th good old pound shop get some cable tidys from there they do the ones that look like a long pipe with a special cable tool.
    If not then the ones from Woolworth's i think they are called jay something.

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    Split loom, and velcro cable ties. You should get them from Mappers.

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    doh reposted :/
    Last edited by kirkabus; 11-01-2006 at 02:14 PM. Reason: forum error :/

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    My suggestion is very similar to Lee@Scans. I bought plastic conduit from B&Q to hide cables. It's rectangular and around 4 cm wide by 1.5 cm deep. The front snaps on. Just glue (or use screws or double sided sticky tape) the U-shaped part to the wall, bung your cables into it and snap on the top cover.

    I painted mine the same colour as the wall so it blends in.

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    Taz, is that the solit trunking, or the one with slats in the side for you to poke cables out of? I like the look of the other stuff for a future install

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    im holding out for wireless power supplies for stuff

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    I usually use a similar bit of kit to what lee and taz have suggested, where you can drill the loom into the back of your cabinet.
    what annoying me about tv and alot of av kit, is they don't use kettle leads or fig-8 plugs (for non-earthed devices) as it's easier just to make the cable.
    with scart leads it's not worth the effort of cutting them to length, as soldering 50 pins in an afternoon is never fun. it's always worth it with any co-axial cable however, especially if you can use broadcast spec cable. you generally need slack of 2inches plus depth of the device to allow for pulling out of the rack and getting a look behind it for easy re-wiring.
    i.e standard pace sky box needs about 14 inches of slack cable to plug in tivo or ir extender

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    Similar to Lee's idea, and what I thought he was saying to begin with, if you take some plastic tubing, cut off a small section 1cm or so and slice down one side, you could just clip it over the cables. A few of these down the wires should keep them together, and you can add/remove cables as you like, unlike with zip-ties.
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