5-Minute Project: Cord holder

By popsci Posted 06.18.2007 at 8:45 pm 2 Comments

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Reader Noah Baird writes in with a 5-Minute Project idea: the guitar cord holder (though it could work with any cord).

2 Tic Tac containers
Duct tape
Guitar cord
1: Duct tape the Tic Tac containers to each other.
2: Wind the guitar cord around them.
Increase the number of containers with the length of the cord.

I suspect you could substitue lots of things for the Tic Tac containers (the Altoids cord holder?).

Have a 5-Minute Project idea of your own? Send it to us at h20 at time4.com or submit it to the PopSci Instructables group. —Mike Haney

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Big T (imported)
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 07/10/07 at 5:24 am

Be careful about winding guitar or other co-axial cables too tightly. This can cause the inner cable to pull free from the contacts at ends.

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DaveR (imported)
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 09/10/07 at 10:00 pm

You might be breaking the cable winding it that way. Try going clockwise, then after one loop twist it to make it turn counter-clockwise. Repeat until wrapped.

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