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Old 29-09-2006, 07:19 PM
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Ken, go to Bunnings and get a 5 meter roll of double sided velcro. Not the adhesive backed stuff (though some of that is useful as well), but the one with hooks on one side and the felt on the other. It's a dream for cables.

You cut short lengths, about 3 cm long and you just wrap it around a couple of wires. Holds to itself beautifully. And if you have some of the sticky back stuff attached to you mount and scope you can use it to hold the wire holding rollups. Its brilliant stuff. And the best part is if you happen to have a cable attached to the mount too short and you swing the mount around, instead of damaging wires by getting them ripped off the mount, the velcro just pulls away.

And it makes rolling the cabling up much easier, just keep them velcro rolled together. AND if you alternate the 3 cm strip rolls with hooks out, felt out, when you roll them up, if you get the spacing right the velcro holds your cable coils together
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