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.
21 $ for a bend piece of steel? Hahaha.
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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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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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.
Ooh, this is clever. Love it when existing products work as cheap and effective solutions aside from their intended use case.
Looking at some of the ready-made options and… damn? If they’re that expensive you might look into printing off your own.
https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=cable+tray&page=1
https://thangs.com/search/under desk cable tray?scope=all
My university has a 3d printer I use for stuff like this sometimes. Some of the better funded public libraries might have them too.
Am I the only one seeing the black bird with grey beak sitting on its tush typing at a laptop in the thumbnail?
I didn’t until you said this, but now I do.
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.
That’s a good idea, cheap, too
Beyond The Office Door has some good reviews of cable management options on their YouTube channel. Their review of the LTT options was particularly well done.
Ikea has a pretty cheap cable tray. I use it under my desk, and it’s worked pretty well.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/signum-cable-management-horizontal-silver-color-30200253
I’m happy with 4x of these trays from Monoprice, cheaper than everything else posted so far as well. Fits a beefy power strip (don’t cheap out on power) with room to stuff cables and power bricks. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=33815
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.
Get Velcro ties instead
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
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.
That sounds like a logical combination, thanks for the tip
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.
Saving this for later
I concur!
Always great to learn about cable management and organization!
I recently cable managed my desk into wire free zen, but it took some time and work.
Server Rack Cable Management have been the best solution I found. Just add some double sided tape and cut the rack to size. I also use the same double sided tape to attach power bars under the desk, same with additional switches or hubs.
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Management-Capacity-Electrically-Computer/dp/B09DYMRL2T
