Binder clips and cables

Attach the binder clip where you want that have you cables hanging behind your desk. Now remove the clip arm as shown in the picture and have you cables run through the hole so to speak. I prefer to try to fit the cables through the little loop at the top of the arm but there is nothing stopping you fill more or less the whole space available with cables. But the more cables the less smoothly the cables will ‘fall back’ behind the desk when you let go of them.

And attach the arm again. And - Voila! You’re done. Now here’s something to think about. I usually remove the top arm and attach the cables on the lower arm as this will make the cables hang a couple of cm below the surface of the table. You won’t see the cables which in some scenarios can be a bad thing. Well - use the upper arm then - Duh!

Using something as ordinary as a binder clip to attach your messy cables can really impress people. First they usually just define you as insane - then they’ll see the ingenious in the idea. And why stop there? You can probably find more ways to make use of binder clips attached to things. Let me know about them! Then I can sell the solution to the cheap manufacturing company in China and earn millions Moahhhaahahaha {Mad scientist laught}

4 Responses to “Binder clips and cables”

1. Benjamin Franzmayr Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 19:47

   Hi. Yep, good idea which works well. I’ve just looped the cables through the “jaw” of the clip & clipped it onto something.
   Using the arms is clever.
   You can get stainless steel ones (we bought some for use in our laboratory at work) but they were very very expensive.
   Benjamin

2. Dotan Cohen Says:
   July 12th, 2006 at 7:05

   Great idea. I’ve now got the cable of my Dell Axim put away where my pet rat can’t get to it… Thanks!

3. Peter Says:
   July 24th, 2006 at 10:44

   I’ve got another solution for cable mess. At http://tinyurl.com/mrrkl you will see industrial, open slot trunking with a lid. It’s 50mm high, 50mm wide (i.e. roughly 2″x2″) with slots and a lid.

   It has an incredible amount of uses: tidy cables under the desk, duct cables up a table leg, trunk complex cable setups over the wall (speaker, sat, aerial, network - and that’s just one side of my workroom . Best of all, if you want to change something you just rip the lid off and get on with it. Lid back inplace and presto - all tidy again.

   Worth buying a couple, it’s industrial stuff so it’s likely to be available at your local ‘pro’ electricity wholesales. PB

4. CRS Says:
   September 29th, 2006 at 21:30

   Adopted - works great, nice pointer.

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