DrJohnZoidberg
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Got myself one of the cable management baskets from IKEA today, sweet.
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Did you get stock locally?
DrJohnZoidberg
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I'm in Poland at the moment, got it here. About R60, bought a bunch of small things and only spent R400, so cheap for this kind of stuff here.
Icemanbrfc
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Have to take plugs off all the time, then put back on. Not a big deal, but yeh.
Icemanbrfc
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You can make it yourself
Maybe one day we'll be able to buy these locally - I'm going overseas in a week maybe I'll bring one back from Ikea.
Can you bring another please. I need a 1.8m one.
DrJohnZoidberg
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Sorry but I just got back to SA today, also couldn't fit anything else in my bag.
Remember to share some photos once fitted
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Icemanbrfc
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I'll have to add it to the stuff I'm never going to get round to doing
PVC Trunking / Cable trays work great under the desk to keep the cables out of sight and organized. I dont know how much they cost (managed to get an offcut from work a few years ago) - need to get another one for my new desk.
Edit: Its called Slotted PVC Trunking
Edit: Its called Slotted PVC Trunking
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The images you posted are commonly known as finger trunking over here I think. The other option is EGA trunking which is solid and all enclosed and what I use.
The images you posted are commonly known as finger trunking over here I think. The other option is EGA trunking which is solid and all enclosed and what I use.
Yes, the standard enclosed trunking is definitely the way to go if you're pulling cables all the way through to the end.
If you do need to pull out / slot in cables half way across the length of the trunking, then the finger trunking works better imho. I stuck it on the underside of the desk, then had the monitor, power, speakers, USB cables etc coming out at various points as needed.
I run many devices of various sort (as evidenced by the lack of empty space on my multiplugs) so cable management is extremely important to me.
Fortunately my desk assisted me quite a bit in hiding the cables.
that's how it looks underneath
running three machines on this multiplug, as well as a charger, my monitors, router, voip and sound
then my "music" section of the desk also running multiple devices as seen below
and then the entire contraption I can move around with relative ease as only two cables come out of the desk, namely the power and data cable which you can see going into the trunking against the wall.
you can also see one of the machines mounted against the desk- except for the sub, there are no items on the floor as such
Fortunately my desk assisted me quite a bit in hiding the cables.
that's how it looks underneath
running three machines on this multiplug, as well as a charger, my monitors, router, voip and sound
then my "music" section of the desk also running multiple devices as seen below
and then the entire contraption I can move around with relative ease as only two cables come out of the desk, namely the power and data cable which you can see going into the trunking against the wall.
you can also see one of the machines mounted against the desk- except for the sub, there are no items on the floor as such
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