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Found a rat's nest behind my desk after 4 years, turns out zip ties were the enemy
I was swapping out a dead power strip last weekend and pulled the whole desk out. Every bundle I'd made with zip ties was so tight the cables had bent and cracked near the connectors. I switched to velcro wraps and left slack loops, and now the whole thing breathes. Anyone else deal with cable fatigue from over-tightening?
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oliviac2226d ago
Four years of zip ties doing that much damage seems off to me. I've had the same zip tied bundles behind my setup since 2019 and when I finally cut them last month the cables were fine, no cracks, no bends, nothing. The real killer is usually heat and cheap cables, not the tie itself. You can get them snug without strangling the wire, the trick is leaving a little give so it can't bite into the jacket. If yours cracked that bad you probably cranked them down way past what the cable needed.
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