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Identifying Patch cables

2011-03-14 by Alan

Hi folks, I wonder if anyone out there has any bright suggestions for helping me wade through this spaghetti.

Just about all my patch leads seem to be black and, without buying a load more multi-coloured ones, I'm trying to think of the best way to mark the plug of each cable with a different colour (well the same colour on each end of an individual cable if you see what I mean) so that I can quickly identify what is going where.

I thought of coloured electrical insulating tape, but I think that will just make the ends really sticky in time. At the moment I'm winding coloured sewing thread repeatedly around the ends of each cable. However, this is a bit time consuming and I don't think it's going to be a very permanent solution.

Any advice will be warmly received...

Cheers,
Alan

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