Small stand/rack for cable management and separation

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I'm looking for ideas for a stand/rack to help separate audio and power cables behind the TV. I have about 24"L x 15"H x 8"D space to work with. What I envision is a wooden stand with two shelves. One shelf will have a PI Audio BussStop with all the power cables. The other shelf will have speaker cables and interconnects. Bonus if there are 3 or more shelves. Something like this but smaller scale:


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Re: Small stand/rack for cable management and separation
« Reply #1 on: 13 Jan 2016, 12:55 am »
First I must ask why use a shelf?   That would be handy for laying coils of cables or my thoughts at least.   I wanted to arrange or ROUTE mine and I came up with dowel rods about 4-6 inches long.

I in essence made some short hall tree's from some scrap 1X2.  Here is a pic of a notch I tried and decided to replace notch with the dowels.

I have a five foot long rack with five stands behind.   All power is on the lowest and 90 deg crossing with as lard a air gap as I could get

All IC's or any cable is on its own hanger no dual nesting.   

And I must say I gained several hundred dollars of clarity from the rat nest I had prior.

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Re: Small stand/rack for cable management and separation
« Reply #2 on: 13 Jan 2016, 01:02 am »
DIY mini utility poles. Excellent!  :thumb:

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Re: Small stand/rack for cable management and separation
« Reply #3 on: 13 Jan 2016, 01:49 am »
First I must ask why use a shelf?   That would be handy for laying coils of cables or my thoughts at least.   I wanted to arrange or ROUTE mine and I came up with dowel rods about 4-6 inches long.

I in essence made some short hall tree's from some scrap 1X2.  Here is a pic of a notch I tried and decided to replace notch with the dowels.

I have a five foot long rack with five stands behind.   All power is on the lowest and 90 deg crossing with as lard a air gap as I could get

All IC's or any cable is on its own hanger no dual nesting.   

And I must say I gained several hundred dollars of clarity from the rat nest I had prior.

Alan

Hi Alan,

It does not have to be a shelf. Your idea here is a good one and I'll look into for sure. Do you happen to have a pic of the stands with the wires on them? Thanks for this.

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Re: Small stand/rack for cable management and separation
« Reply #4 on: 13 Jan 2016, 06:36 pm »
I am the lineman for the County :thumb:






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Re: Small stand/rack for cable management and separation
« Reply #5 on: 13 Jan 2016, 07:50 pm »
I am the lineman for the County :thumb:




Thank you  :)

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Re: Small stand/rack for cable management and separation
« Reply #6 on: 17 Jan 2016, 07:38 pm »
I like the notches because you can switch things on the fly, but on the other hand zip ties are pretty cheap.

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Re: Small stand/rack for cable management and separation
« Reply #7 on: 17 Jan 2016, 10:10 pm »
I like the notches because you can switch things on the fly, but on the other hand zip ties are pretty cheap.
I am thinking of a rebuild as that was the first try of a 10 min DIY before the beer got hot :thumb:

I will reverse the setup or do a dual side hanger.  And for that I need to change the base for balance.  I also want to run a horizontal bar or two with notches so the cables could almost "S" via three notches :scratch: 

Any way it is about time to pull it all apart and clean cable ends and see what can happen :roll: :roll: