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Those are them.
I have three sets, one for test cables, one for computer cables and the last for power cables.

The only problem is the model you linked to has small slots for the cable (maybe 3/16"?)...there are others with alternating large (1/2") and small slots that allow hanging cables like LMR400, RG8 etc.

On Saturday 16 November 2024 03:38:07 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:

Organizing cables

One major PITA since I got into electronics was organizing my various cables. If you store them in a drawer or box they wind around each other form Gordian Knots.

They're mating...

I've probably spent several months of my life in wasted minutes or hours untangling cables.

I have a couple of briefcase-sized cases that I used to use for toolboxes when I was mostly running service calls. I'd keep my various test leads tied with those plastic ties that you get with some trash bags. They'd still get tangled, and while untangling them I'd comment to the custommer that someday there would be test leads that wouldn't tangle, and the inventor would be rich.

I've tried several schemes over the decades with various degrees of success. Back in EE instrumentation and measurement we used Pomona cable hangers, at $39 each they weren't an option. The best I had come up with was "mushrooms" as used in telephone distribution rooms.

A friend suggested this.

I have a couple of those, used when I had my shop, and although I still have them I don't currently have a good place to put them. Wall space is limited, and very much used up. I don't recall if they were Pomona or not, just that you could get them in a few different sizes and I got the ones in the middle.

For ~$10 each they struck me as a probable solution. I ordered 5 (I have a lot of cables) and the quality is first rate, well the equal of Pomana.

For my toolbox I happened on some clear plastic pouches, with zippers. Labels had to be removed, but a set of test leads in each of three or four of these works pretty well for me. Not running service calls these days (retired!), and I'm not sure where the focus of work is going to end up, so there's a box labeled "shop cables" for the time being...

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On Sunday 17 November 2024 11:56:13 am wn4isx via groups.io wrote:

And yes having almost all my cable nicely organized is extremely nice and our cat, who really own our home, has decided the desk drawer some of the cables were in is her new cave. The front of the desk drawer is broken leaving about a 3
gap that she slithers through just like a furry snake.

As nice as having my cables organized is, making my wife's day and giving Beasty Girl a new cave is nicer. Beasty is getting old, I suspect she doesn't have too many months left. The end point for cats old age is kidney failure and Beast is showing signs. Which sucks.

Yeah it does. We have a couple of those critters around here, one of which is hers and one which seems to have adopted me. I came in here earlier and sat down and she's in my lap in a flash. Right now she's over there, nested quite nicely on top of a cardboard box. I think I have more pics on my phone of those two critters than all of the rest of them put together.

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Many years ago, I learned to form cables in a figure-8 (around my thumb and pinkie), and only then to bundle/secure/wrap them for travel. They don't unravel; they don't tangle; they don't mate with other cables.

Donald.

On Sunday 17 November 2024 06:00:00 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:

I have 10 foot coax with micro-BNC connectors!

What on earth use(d) micro-BNCs!

*Nothing I ever owned!*

I don't think I've ever seen those. Somewhere around here I have a hunk of coax with miniature versions of the PL-259 on each end. I've never seen anything that used those, either. That one just showed up in the garage at some point...


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On Tuesday 19 November 2024 05:47:14 pm Leon Robinson wrote:

The 2N3055 is a TO-3 Power Transistor, RCA Made the best one's.

Motorola ones were used a lot too. I vaguely recall some particular model of Crown amplifier specifying that brand, and I saw them a lot in Baldwin organs.


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On Tuesday 19 November 2024 09:49:05 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:

In 1974 I built a plate reverb, 1/8 thick 48" wide by 60" long in a oak 4"X4" frame. It takes 4 strong people to move it (which I'm not these days). Sure beats a spring reverb (have one of them too).? Until digital effects matured, the plate reverb was it unless you had a large spare room to use as an echo chamber.

I've only ever heard of those being used in recording studios.

I never cared for the Leslie Speaker

They sound good on electronic organs but not so good on electric guitars.

I like 'em, but then I like organs, too. Almost ended up with one a while back, but my car died around that time and I took the money the guy offered me instead. Last time I talked to him he was still looking for a Leslie cabinet. I did a mod on one of those once, the speed switching relay had some pretty burned contacts, so after getting a replacement I had the relay switching gate drive to a couple of triacs, and told the guy that he'd never have that problem again.

I also have a Fender Rhodes electric piano but reeds have become almost impossible and insanely expensive to buy, It needs a lot of reeds/tines so it is destined for the recycler.

Bummer. I like those, but didn't know that about them. Tines. Reeds are what you find in Worlitzer electric pianos. They break occasionally. Tuning those is done with a file on the little blob of solder on the end of the reed. You go too far, and you can always add some back. Lining those things up was a bit of a PITA. And then of course there's the voltage across that stuff, in the earlier ones it could give you quite a tingle...




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On Tuesday 19 November 2024 09:49:05 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:

I almost made a not so small fortune by cloning the MXR Phase 90.
It was easy to clone and nightmare to match the JFETs.

I did end up looking at that, and then the page for flanger, which led me to the page for Eventide, which seems to be still around. I almost went to work for them once, and in the interview process the guy made it a point to tell me that they ordered just enough parts for production and that it'd be a real problem if I were to take any home for my own projects. I found that rather insulting, him assuming right off that if I went to work there I'd be stealing from them, and informed him that I had plenty of parts of my own, and wouldn't need to bother with any of theirs.

I don't recall anything about having to match the jfets. Maybe I was seeing different stuff in those days? Maestro comes to mind. And I have a vague recollection of a phaser that used LDRs rather than jfets, though I'd have to do some digging to find out what one that was. All of that being in the pile called "schematics and service manuals that I'll probably never use again"...

Now I'm wondering how complicated it would be to put together some sort of a digital effects box.


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