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Organizer for charging cables

Completion date: 15 February 2019





I wanted a charging cables organizer long ago. I have been dropping my cables on the floor after using them, and searching them on the floor every night. 

I bought the 9-pack wire organizer $20 at Japan Home. I still bought it even the organizers are not ideal (the side coverage is too short), because I couldn’t stand the thought of buying from Taobao again for such a trivial accessory. 

Originally I only planned for wood block with the wire organizers only, however the wire organizers turned out to be a total failure, so I had to add piece of plastic to complete the project. 

What I did:
1. Cut a piece of wood (just the width of a ruler)
2. Stuck the wire organizers onto the wood


3. Cut out 8x12cm plastic from file folder. Folded like so. 


4. Fixed the plastic on the wood so the markings can be made




5. Punched 4mm hole on the markings



6. Cut a vertical straight line all the way to the first folded line





7. Drilled a special hole for countersunk/flat head screws (used wood drill bit 8mm, used HSS drill bit 8mm to drill 3mm deep, used 1/8 drill bit dead center all the way)







8. Here is my little table. Turned it over and Drilled 2 pilot holes to the table, and installed the organizer. 


9. The 8x12cm plastic was too short but still did the job.  I had to pre-thread all these cables. Next time I have to make it longer so that the cables have more room to go through.  







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