The Evolution of Wire Storage: A Journey of Innovation and Efficiency

Years of storing wire on spindles have led me to a profound realization – it doesn't want to be confined to those narrow, cylindrical spaces. Instead, it yearns for freedom, wanting to sit comfortably in a trough or shelf. I've been on this journey for years, experimenting with different storage solutions, and I'm thrilled to share my latest innovation with you.

The Birth of a New Shelf Design

I set out to create the perfect wire storage system, one that would revolutionize the way I organize my electrical components. After months of research and experimentation, I finally landed on a design that exceeded my expectations. The new shelf features a polycarbonate twin-wall enclosure on the front, with plywood on the back, and triangular connectors to maintain an angled relationship between each wire compartment. The result is a sleek and efficient storage solution that's sure to please even the most discerning electrician.

The Shelf Takes Shape

As I began building the new shelf, I realized that it was time to retire my old wire rack. It had served me well over the years, but its limitations were starting to show. The new design would not only provide more space for my wires but also make them easier to access and manage. With a sense of excitement and anticipation, I set up my camera to capture the transformation process on a time-lapse video.

The Final Product

After days of careful planning and execution, the shelf was finally complete. The first thing that struck me was how much room it had freed up in the shop. Gone were the cramped and cluttered corners, replaced by a sense of openness and simplicity. I spent hours organizing my wires into their new compartments, marveling at how easily they could be accessed and managed.

The Secret to Efficient Wire Storage

As I worked on the shelf, I stumbled upon an ingenious solution that would change the way I store wire forever – self-dispensing spools. No longer would I have to worry about tangled wires or struggling to access the middle of a roll. With these dispensing spools, I could simply pull out what I needed, and the excess would unwind effortlessly.

The Dispensers: A Game-Changer

I was overjoyed when I discovered that dispensing spools were available for purchase. These clever devices solved the age-old problem of tangled wire once and for all. No longer would I have to wrestle with stubborn wires or suffer the frustration of dealing with tangled messes. With self-dispensing spools, I could focus on more creative pursuits, knowing that my electrical components were safely stored and easily accessible.

The Benefits of a Well-Designed Storage System

As I looked around the shop, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and satisfaction. The new shelf had not only provided more space for my wires but also streamlined my workflow. With everything neatly organized and within reach, I could focus on tackling complex projects with confidence. This was more than just a storage system – it was an investment in my productivity and creativity.

The Future of Wire Storage

As I reflect on this project, I realize that the journey was just as important as the destination. It taught me the value of experimentation, innovation, and adaptability. The evolution of wire storage has been a long and winding road, but the end result is worth it – a system that's efficient, effective, and truly life-changing.

A Final Word

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell hello everybody adam savage in my cave and if i seem a little overdressed for being in my cave it's because it's pretty cold here in san francisco i know it's not cold by most of the world's standard but it is cold by san francisco standards uh and need to wear some extra layers to keep my fingers and toes from freezing right off uh today we have a shop infrastructure build uh and it's about addressing what's going on right here uh on top of this uh sortimo carrier i've got is a shelf and there's stuff on the shelf this is drawer door and handles hat repair and maintenance lots of extra thread some upholstery tacks and such i used to have wire up here i used to have spools of electrical wire uh and then i realized that i wasn't using i was only using about 15 of the number of spools of wire that were up there so i put most of the wire into deep storage i have the rest of it right there in that box and so what i'm gonna do today is build a shelf for which was the camera there you are sorry i kept looking at that side what i'm gonna do today is build a shelf for the top of that sword remote case that takes care of all of this stuff the wire the box is full of tools and such and the upholstery tacks and makes that a useful shelf space um i'm feeling a burning need to take care of this because i've got this crap on my floor and it's like it's bugging me and i don't feel like i can kind of fully operate in the shop until it's off my floor so i wasn't planning on doing this to later this week but i just want to get it done today yeah here we go uh in building this wire rack i'm going to be uh exhibiting i'm going to be utilizing some of my shop philosophy specifically around wire and i hope it's useful to you because i i feel like i've learned the proper way to store wire yeah first things first we're going to bound the problem by figuring out just how big this shelf's footprint is going to be and then go from there so 36 inches wide by 36 by 13. and then its face will sit in an inch and a half 36 by 13 inch and a half hold on let's see here 86 13 1.5 inches feet okay uh yeah 36 by 13. so i'm going to cut out two pieces of that figuring i'm bracketing the bottom and the top of the shelves so it's going to be like this right and then on one side i'm going to have those drawers maybe four of them and then on the other side it's going to be the wire okay 36 by 13. yeah then i can build the whole thing kind of right here in front of me there we go one big chunk of three-quarter inch high that's great so huh that's the base and one yeah okay so i think this is what we'll talk about that's a six and a half six and a half all right so the shelves are like this six point five six point five six point five six point five times four is 24 25 26 plus uh one half one half one half one half one half that's one two three four five times a half is 2.5 26 plus 2.5 is 28.5 this is the case i don't need that one so it's just here one two three one point five so it's 27.5 28 yeah that's i have just enough okay so i'm gonna cut some hog legs all right i'm gonna cut some hog legs um so okay one section of my shelves are finished and that is the ones that hold these uh uh tarp bin bins uh and this is great this is like i'm super glad to have this uh here i've got four of these ones for uh door closures and corners handles i've got some for uh chemicals for leather work and extra leather toolage plus hat repair and maintenance yeah this is great but now i need to fill this and this is going to be filled with wire and i need to actually lay out and figure out how many shelves of wire i'm going to have and how they're all going to work it's a little bit of engineering right now okay let me move this okay we have 18 inches to play with give it's actually or 17 three-quarters so i'm just gonna mark this out oh really come on inside to inside i'm going to say 17 and three quarters good one big lap cord those are different speaker cable okay lamp lamp yeah that's definitely that's definitely one shell then there's two conductor wire which i love all conductor wire cool there that's great i'm not sure about okay but that's a good another one that's another good one so that's a second shell yep right okay then there's this lamp stuff oh more to conductor wire yeah oh even more okay uh actually i want to get all the conductor wire in one spot so let's move everything here and that shelf will be entirely two conductor wire great that's great like that cool then i've got the heavier leg cord it's multi-conductor okay so what i have here is essentially four shelves large large large actually actually you know what i can do is i can set this up like this and this can give me some idea some idea yeah see that okay so i can have a nice small shelf and because what i have here is 27 and a half yeah i have the room for four shelves worth of wire um so three of them that that's going to be there there with spools little spools okay four shelves wire i'd say these two would be five and five five and five five and five and then these would be what i'm thinking three and three so five five five and three five five five and three um i'm still holding back from explaining to you exactly how i'm gonna hold these uh wire spools in orientation but let me tell you about the the secret life of wire spools is that they're like a riddle that carries misinformation inside the riddle this looks like a good storage solution for wire and it is it's localized it allows me access to as much of it as i want and because it's got a hole it leads me to believe i want to store it on a spindle but if i'm storing it on a spindle and i need the whole thing a wire i have to remove the spindle and all the other bits of wire from that spindle so i've after years and years of storing wire on spindles i've come to the conclusion that it does not want to be in a spindle it wants to sit in a trough and i had a version of this for years it was semi-okay i'm now going to make that better and here we go uh so i need some i need a cutlass here is i need five inches by 18 inches times three ply and three plex and then there's yeah six pieces five times 18 yeah yeah yeah that should work okay and then yeah i don't think i even need this necessarily all right yeah let's give it a shot eighteen uh so do we're almost there uh here is the shelf and what you can see is that each shelf for wire is a shelf of this uh polycarbonate twin wall on the front plywood on the back and a triangular connector to keep them in that angled relationship when i put it up on the shelf you'll start to see the magic that this mode of storage can engender and then over here goes the uh my four drawers orders so i'm gonna set this up on a time lapse so you can watch this all go in and then we'll talk about we'll talk about its functionality yeah oh i'm so glad to get this one across the line do i think we're done uh so here whoops here's my new shelf on the right side i've got some storage containers that fit into these nice drawers that's fantastic on the left side i've got new storage for the wire it takes up less than half of the amount of space that my old wire rack used to take up and it's much more based on my actual usage for instance i use the twin conductor two conductor red black wire more than almost anything else so those are localized down here uh then i've got multi-conductor and speaker cable and then way up top i've got heavy medium and lightweight an old-fashioned lamp cord for 120 volt electrics but the real innovation here was something i stumbled upon in a package for wiring which is the dispensing of it all i have to do is pull a little bit on that and i get what i need it's self dispensing if you try to do this on spindles they just keep on spinning if you try and do this on spindles they just keep on spinning you pull a bit out and then it unwinds and then there's all of a sudden they're wound across each other if you've stored wire on spindles you know the pain from which i speak this actually this method of drilling a hole in the front piece of an angled shelf holds the wire in its orientation and i wind it back like this there we go and i just make sure all the tails are only a few inches long i just make sure all the tails are just a few inches long and i don't have to worry about my wire getting untangled and if i need the whole spool well i can just pull it this is this is life-changing for me i mean almost sorry for the sickening walk-through but almost as life-changing as storing tape without using the holes in the middle of the rolls of tape this also changed my life and i stumbled upon this in a in a backstage uh i think at the fox theater in detroit one of my favorite halls to play in the whole united states um i didn't mean that that was a sickening shock tour i just meant that i know sometimes i can move a little quickly through the shop while holding onto the camera and that that can cause some people to experience some motion sickness and as a human being with a weak stomach for whom many of the games on my oculus quest make me a little bit ill i appreciate that um but i am really happy with how much extra room this shelf has given me it takes up room but it gives me more than it took up because now i have some blank spots up there to take care of yeah uh every time you add a bit of infrastructure gives you a little more of an understanding of the kind of infrastructure you need i've been sort of avoiding this one for a couple of weeks now but now that it's in i'm super happy about it thank you guys for joining me for this infrastructure build and yeah i will see you next time cheers thank you guys so much for watching that entire video if you would like to support tested even further well i'm here to tell you that you could become a member if you follow the links below you'll see there are several tiers of membership depending on how much you'd like to pay and how much access you would like to me and the tested team and membership comes as always with some excellent benefits including uh questions that i'll answer in live streams the questions have been so amazing and exclusive videos and exclusive content follow the links below and we will see you next timewell hello everybody adam savage in my cave and if i seem a little overdressed for being in my cave it's because it's pretty cold here in san francisco i know it's not cold by most of the world's standard but it is cold by san francisco standards uh and need to wear some extra layers to keep my fingers and toes from freezing right off uh today we have a shop infrastructure build uh and it's about addressing what's going on right here uh on top of this uh sortimo carrier i've got is a shelf and there's stuff on the shelf this is drawer door and handles hat repair and maintenance lots of extra thread some upholstery tacks and such i used to have wire up here i used to have spools of electrical wire uh and then i realized that i wasn't using i was only using about 15 of the number of spools of wire that were up there so i put most of the wire into deep storage i have the rest of it right there in that box and so what i'm gonna do today is build a shelf for which was the camera there you are sorry i kept looking at that side what i'm gonna do today is build a shelf for the top of that sword remote case that takes care of all of this stuff the wire the box is full of tools and such and the upholstery tacks and makes that a useful shelf space um i'm feeling a burning need to take care of this because i've got this crap on my floor and it's like it's bugging me and i don't feel like i can kind of fully operate in the shop until it's off my floor so i wasn't planning on doing this to later this week but i just want to get it done today yeah here we go uh in building this wire rack i'm going to be uh exhibiting i'm going to be utilizing some of my shop philosophy specifically around wire and i hope it's useful to you because i i feel like i've learned the proper way to store wire yeah first things first we're going to bound the problem by figuring out just how big this shelf's footprint is going to be and then go from there so 36 inches wide by 36 by 13. and then its face will sit in an inch and a half 36 by 13 inch and a half hold on let's see here 86 13 1.5 inches feet okay uh yeah 36 by 13. so i'm going to cut out two pieces of that figuring i'm bracketing the bottom and the top of the shelves so it's going to be like this right and then on one side i'm going to have those drawers maybe four of them and then on the other side it's going to be the wire okay 36 by 13. yeah then i can build the whole thing kind of right here in front of me there we go one big chunk of three-quarter inch high that's great so huh that's the base and one yeah okay so i think this is what we'll talk about that's a six and a half six and a half all right so the shelves are like this six point five six point five six point five six point five times four is 24 25 26 plus uh one half one half one half one half one half that's one two three four five times a half is 2.5 26 plus 2.5 is 28.5 this is the case i don't need that one so it's just here one two three one point five so it's 27.5 28 yeah that's i have just enough okay so i'm gonna cut some hog legs all right i'm gonna cut some hog legs um so okay one section of my shelves are finished and that is the ones that hold these uh uh tarp bin bins uh and this is great this is like i'm super glad to have this uh here i've got four of these ones for uh door closures and corners handles i've got some for uh chemicals for leather work and extra leather toolage plus hat repair and maintenance yeah this is great but now i need to fill this and this is going to be filled with wire and i need to actually lay out and figure out how many shelves of wire i'm going to have and how they're all going to work it's a little bit of engineering right now okay let me move this okay we have 18 inches to play with give it's actually or 17 three-quarters so i'm just gonna mark this out oh really come on inside to inside i'm going to say 17 and three quarters good one big lap cord those are different speaker cable okay lamp lamp yeah that's definitely that's definitely one shell then there's two conductor wire which i love all conductor wire cool there that's great i'm not sure about okay but that's a good another one that's another good one so that's a second shell yep right okay then there's this lamp stuff oh more to conductor wire yeah oh even more okay uh actually i want to get all the conductor wire in one spot so let's move everything here and that shelf will be entirely two conductor wire great that's great like that cool then i've got the heavier leg cord it's multi-conductor okay so what i have here is essentially four shelves large large large actually actually you know what i can do is i can set this up like this and this can give me some idea some idea yeah see that okay so i can have a nice small shelf and because what i have here is 27 and a half yeah i have the room for four shelves worth of wire um so three of them that that's going to be there there with spools little spools okay four shelves wire i'd say these two would be five and five five and five five and five and then these would be what i'm thinking three and three so five five five and three five five five and three um i'm still holding back from explaining to you exactly how i'm gonna hold these uh wire spools in orientation but let me tell you about the the secret life of wire spools is that they're like a riddle that carries misinformation inside the riddle this looks like a good storage solution for wire and it is it's localized it allows me access to as much of it as i want and because it's got a hole it leads me to believe i want to store it on a spindle but if i'm storing it on a spindle and i need the whole thing a wire i have to remove the spindle and all the other bits of wire from that spindle so i've after years and years of storing wire on spindles i've come to the conclusion that it does not want to be in a spindle it wants to sit in a trough and i had a version of this for years it was semi-okay i'm now going to make that better and here we go uh so i need some i need a cutlass here is i need five inches by 18 inches times three ply and three plex and then there's yeah six pieces five times 18 yeah yeah yeah that should work okay and then yeah i don't think i even need this necessarily all right yeah let's give it a shot eighteen uh so do we're almost there uh here is the shelf and what you can see is that each shelf for wire is a shelf of this uh polycarbonate twin wall on the front plywood on the back and a triangular connector to keep them in that angled relationship when i put it up on the shelf you'll start to see the magic that this mode of storage can engender and then over here goes the uh my four drawers orders so i'm gonna set this up on a time lapse so you can watch this all go in and then we'll talk about we'll talk about its functionality yeah oh i'm so glad to get this one across the line do i think we're done uh so here whoops here's my new shelf on the right side i've got some storage containers that fit into these nice drawers that's fantastic on the left side i've got new storage for the wire it takes up less than half of the amount of space that my old wire rack used to take up and it's much more based on my actual usage for instance i use the twin conductor two conductor red black wire more than almost anything else so those are localized down here uh then i've got multi-conductor and speaker cable and then way up top i've got heavy medium and lightweight an old-fashioned lamp cord for 120 volt electrics but the real innovation here was something i stumbled upon in a package for wiring which is the dispensing of it all i have to do is pull a little bit on that and i get what i need it's self dispensing if you try to do this on spindles they just keep on spinning if you try and do this on spindles they just keep on spinning you pull a bit out and then it unwinds and then there's all of a sudden they're wound across each other if you've stored wire on spindles you know the pain from which i speak this actually this method of drilling a hole in the front piece of an angled shelf holds the wire in its orientation and i wind it back like this there we go and i just make sure all the tails are only a few inches long i just make sure all the tails are just a few inches long and i don't have to worry about my wire getting untangled and if i need the whole spool well i can just pull it this is this is life-changing for me i mean almost sorry for the sickening walk-through but almost as life-changing as storing tape without using the holes in the middle of the rolls of tape this also changed my life and i stumbled upon this in a in a backstage uh i think at the fox theater in detroit one of my favorite halls to play in the whole united states um i didn't mean that that was a sickening shock tour i just meant that i know sometimes i can move a little quickly through the shop while holding onto the camera and that that can cause some people to experience some motion sickness and as a human being with a weak stomach for whom many of the games on my oculus quest make me a little bit ill i appreciate that um but i am really happy with how much extra room this shelf has given me it takes up room but it gives me more than it took up because now i have some blank spots up there to take care of yeah uh every time you add a bit of infrastructure gives you a little more of an understanding of the kind of infrastructure you need i've been sort of avoiding this one for a couple of weeks now but now that it's in i'm super happy about it thank you guys for joining me for this infrastructure build and yeah i will see you next time cheers thank you guys so much for watching that entire video if you would like to support tested even further well i'm here to tell you that you could become a member if you follow the links below you'll see there are several tiers of membership depending on how much you'd like to pay and how much access you would like to me and the tested team and membership comes as always with some excellent benefits including uh questions that i'll answer in live streams the questions have been so amazing and exclusive videos and exclusive content follow the links below and we will see you next time\n"