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Looking for cable management advice

I finally upgraded my desk and I want to have appropriately clean cable management. I would need probably 4 of the option shown here, and that's unnecessarily expensive, so I'm hoping yall have some ideas.

Also, ideally they wouldn't be out in the open, since I've got a nibbly cat.

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lemmy.world

True, it seems way too expensive.

Everything has increased in price though...

Looking again at the picture, it seems to have a good amount of space though!

Holy damn, look at the price of this!

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Gutters. Go to your local Home Depot clone, get 8 feet (or cut one shorter) of vinyl gutter and some clips to hang them under your desk. Cut to length, hang under your desk.

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Ooh, this is clever. Love it when existing products work as cheap and effective solutions aside from their intended use case.

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Good amount of velcro and zipties?

Many great options:

Seems Ikea has a smaller, but cheaper option (Other comment shows the larger tray):

Loose cables, something like this:

Box to put extension inside, ground level though:

More Cable covers:

Another desk tray:

Floor cable organizer:

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lemmy.ca

I like the look of that one as it hides everything but it also hides everything so it could be hard to manage a bunch of cables and power bars but once it's setup up how often would you need to go in there?

I've used many of these over the years in office setups from IKEA. It's a open design but with lots of places to hook wire loops.

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I used this particular rack for almost 20 years. It's okay.

It's a bit cramped in it's design. It was never easy to undo anything because it snags on everything.

I switched to a design like the one in the pic but angled outwards and it's just been a bit nicer.

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lemmy.world

I've used 3M Command light clips for my under-desk cable management for years. It's a little more fiddly on the initial setup, but is very low-profile and you can put the cables exactly where you want them.

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lemmy.ml

Am I the only one seeing the black bird with grey beak sitting on its tush typing at a laptop in the thumbnail?

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Do you have 4 power strips? If not then just any kind of screw in clip for the wires themselves, zip ties for loose wiring, and something like this for the power strip should work.

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aussie.zone

If you don't care about the underside of your desk, buy a box of cable clamps and hammer those fuckers in a line along the back edge.

Then buy a bunch of tiny zipties and zip them to the clips. Leave enough room so if you need to, you can get a pair of scissors in and cut the ziptie off.

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Most power strips have screw mounting options on the bottom. You could just mount the power strip directly to the desk "upside down".

Then use double sided Velcro to group all your wires together

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I've seen this done with a section of vinyl gutter before. If you do an image search for pictures there are lots of examples. The version I saw was a reddit link, which I will not utter here.

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lemmy.world

It would be absolutely asinine to spend that much money on something you could build yourself. No I will not elaborate on how cause isk how but someone does but not me cuz I'm tarded

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