Wire Managment: It's a Snake!

Wire managment on a homemade 3D printer can be a bear of a problem, especially if your projects don't regulary require in excess of 30 control wires

Because I have many hobbies, and like to draw on alternate sources of inspiration, I took a look at how the arcade stick fanatics over at the Shoryuken Forums manage their wiring.

Arcade Fight Stick Builders are infamous for their fetish with clean wiring solutions:




In particular I was interested in their use of TechFlex FlexoPet Sheathing. (Generic PET and nylon sheathing should produce similar results. Techflex is already pretty much a generic brand though )

Bypassing most online stores, I was able to find much better deals on FlexoPet on eBay.

Working with flexible wire sheathing can be a whole hobby on it's own. Some hobbyiests like to use nylon and PET sheathing to "pimp out" their PC towers. The Million Dollar PC site.

Maybe a tad silly, but this snake skin pattern sheath caught my eye



I am still learing the inns and outs of working with this style of shething but I am having fun with it all the same.

Here are some pics of my RepRapPro Huxley getting the FLEXOPET treatment






If you have some fun wire managment pictures or techniques post them up here

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a side view

This is my wire management solution:



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/12/2012 04:13PM by NewPerfection.

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Very neat and clean,

That is a pretty sexy build.

I like the brackets for your power supply.

No need for any cooling fans?

I should probably put my motor wires under my extremely under used spiral plastic wrap as well

Idolcrasher Wrote:
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> Very neat and clean,
>
> That is a pretty sexy build.
>
> I like the brackets for your power supply.
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> No need for any cooling fans?

The power supply is for an XBox 360, it has a small built-in fan. The electronics enclosure also has an integrated cooling fan.

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I ment cooling fans for the printed objects

Idolcrasher Wrote:
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> I ment cooling fans for the printed objects

Yes, there is a cooling fan attached to the carriage as well

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i just color co ordinate the color of the cable tie with the color of the parts on the printer,

i once spent 2 hours visiting $2 shops trying to find the right kind of purpley pink that matched the parts on my printer as close as possible..... yes very sad

thejollygrimreaper Wrote:
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> i just color co ordinate the color of the cable
> tie with the color of the parts on the printer,
>
> i once spent 2 hours visiting $2 shops trying to
> find the right kind of purpley pink that matched
> the parts on my printer as close as possible.....
> yes very sad

Hahaha, I understand all too well friend

Thanks for the suggestion. After I saw this post I ordered some black off of ebay. Really works great.