5-Minute Project: Cord holder

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

Comments

[Big T]

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.

[DaveR]

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.