IVB
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A thread dedicated to my physical equipment. I'll come back and flesh this out/take some more pics when I got some energy, but here's what I got for now.
You may have seen the other thread with my "before/physical mounting guidance" stuff. Here's an "after" picture. It ended up taking me between 5-10mins PER RUN to cut it to look clean, plus I ended up redoing several runs as I realized a better way of doing it. I went the "no pain, no gain" route, and cut every wire to 6" within the exact length needed. I fed the spare back out and pushed the wiring back a bit, but this is now the "permanent" location for the Elk cabinet. I had a contigency plan beforehand where I left 2-3 feet of extra wiring there, that's gone now.
I also came up with an interesting idea about how to flatmount items that were too small for the Elk mounting plates: I used the dual-sided Elk sticky foam, and attached it to velcro. That way I can easily remove it to put wires in, and just reattach it back.
There's still a few odds & ends to clean up (like that damn wire hanging straight through on the right), but this is already staggeringly nicer than the disgusting mess I used to have.
Here's the jring & the endless velcro that I used. This was the big score, it really helped clean everything up. I actually ended up going back and re-wiring nearly 40' on average, in some cases went the full distance of close to 100' as it was really quite ugly and hokey.
Still to come: Pictures of the backside of the wall. I'm going to hold off a bit on pictures of the physical room until I have a chance to build an interior wall.
You may have seen the other thread with my "before/physical mounting guidance" stuff. Here's an "after" picture. It ended up taking me between 5-10mins PER RUN to cut it to look clean, plus I ended up redoing several runs as I realized a better way of doing it. I went the "no pain, no gain" route, and cut every wire to 6" within the exact length needed. I fed the spare back out and pushed the wiring back a bit, but this is now the "permanent" location for the Elk cabinet. I had a contigency plan beforehand where I left 2-3 feet of extra wiring there, that's gone now.
I also came up with an interesting idea about how to flatmount items that were too small for the Elk mounting plates: I used the dual-sided Elk sticky foam, and attached it to velcro. That way I can easily remove it to put wires in, and just reattach it back.
There's still a few odds & ends to clean up (like that damn wire hanging straight through on the right), but this is already staggeringly nicer than the disgusting mess I used to have.
Here's the jring & the endless velcro that I used. This was the big score, it really helped clean everything up. I actually ended up going back and re-wiring nearly 40' on average, in some cases went the full distance of close to 100' as it was really quite ugly and hokey.
Still to come: Pictures of the backside of the wall. I'm going to hold off a bit on pictures of the physical room until I have a chance to build an interior wall.