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[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

It was fine, until I was in music class with the kids with the flutes.

Hit him witchya flute, Greg.

One billion points if you got that reference.

[BigV]

...

I'm wrestling with this one, but I'm sure I'll pin it down soon.

[limegreenc]

Bags that roll down around the trunks of trees and when October rolls around they catch all the leaves-just like a woman to figure something like this out, and cheaply too.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by limegreenc

Bags that roll down around the trunks of trees and when October rolls around they catch all the leaves-just like a woman to figure something like this out, and cheaply too.

My gradfather puts a big blue tarp under his pecan trees.



And by the way, another benefit to my totally ignored wire bundling method...
When you un-bundle any part of the wires, they have a natural 'pigtail' tendency:

[Lamplighter]

...not to be used with extension cords. Right ?

I get very frustrated when I find an extension cord wound up that way.
I use a very simple way to coil even a 100 ft extension so you can then
throw it out and it "uncoils" with few, if any, kinks.

[glatt]

Pet peeve is when people roll up the extension cord the wrong way. Just listen to it. It will tell you if it likes the way you are rolling it up. It should be effortless.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

I use a very simple way to coil even a 100 ft extension so you can then
throw it out and it "uncoils" with few, if any, kinks.

This is how an audio cable is properly coiled on set. I was actually given a test over whether we could coil a cable properly. Throw it across the floor with no stray twists, you get an A.

[Flint]

Addressing the OP.

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

... yards of spaghetti-wiring ...

A TV, DVD player, Audio Reciever, and 1 set of stereo speakers, all placed in the same cabinet, will have at least three power cables, a couple of RCAs, S-Videos, HDMIs or whatever, and the speaker wire. All cables--with the exception of the speaker wire--cannot be cut to length. The components are probably very close to each other, and close to a power outlet, power strip, or UPS. Spaghetti wiring is inevitable.

Unless...you make bundles wrapped with velcro strips--this is acceptable, but unnecessary if you use the self-bundling technique. Also, you can use zip strips, with the added inconvenience of having to cut the zip strip (at some point in the future)--unless you have the reversible zip strips. The ultimate, really is to use the zip strips with an eye you can run a screw through, bundle up all of your wire bundles into one big bundle, and screw it to the bottom of something where you can't see it, and it will never be jostled.

All of that being said, the simplest solution, requiring no additional tools or materials, is to make self-bundled wire bundles, allowing exactly as much wire as you need. You can connect the components directly, with no slack cable in between. You can even connect them purposefully so that no wires cross over each other, leaving a flow chart which will diagram like this:

_______________
_______________
_______________
_______________
_______________
_______________
_______________

If you catch my drift. This is like spaghetti that is still in the box.

You can actually take a bunch of slimy noodles and put them back into Pandora's box.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Throw it across the floor with no stray twists, you get an A.

If you have reason to suspect that your TV may suddenly be moved 100 ft away from everything else, then you have other issues going on.

[limegreenc]

We use these Velcro tabs about 4-6 inches long. We use them for everything, and they just pull off with the little colored tab at the end. I use it on the starter arm of the mower, so if I need to move a lawn chair I don't have to start the darn thing again. Also use it on my vacuum power cord if I use an extension. Handy as hell

[Flint]

I Velcro down the throttle bar of my mower. Probably not safe...

[BigV]

Ask Sunday's dad how that strategy worked out for him with his power tools....

[Flint]

I'm afraid to ask.

[BigV]

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[limegreenc]

Ugh,,please explain

[it]

take the gripper off of this:

(not the robotic arm, just the coffee-sack & air pump)

stick it on the bottom of this:


upload the software of this:


and unleash it upon the household! might also make for an awkward waiter...

p.s.
maybe paint a smiley face on the the gripper so that it doesn't look like a flying penis