In house cable storage

Shane Presley

Shane Presley

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www.bssproductions.com
Does anyone have any suggestions/ ideas on how to store cable in the shop. I'm building an expansion on my shop and it should allow me to make a cable storage area. I was thinking of a simple welded peg type rack. Are there any drawbacks to this system, will it damage cables hanging over time? It'll also open up the trunks that these "dead cables" occupy, and it'll prevent me from taking way more cable than I need on a show, instead of bringing the entire speakon cable box, ac, xlr, soca etc....
Pics would be great if you have em.
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How much cable do you have, Shane? Pallet baskets? Less? More? We do the peg rack for most small cables and trunks or big bins for soca and long NL8 runs.
 
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Thanks Tim... My cable inventory doesn't rival Clair bros.., it's about a dozen or so soca, a couple 24" trunks of a/c and 30 amp twist, 24" trunk of speakon, 24" trunk of xlr (of which I should own more), and a trunk of dmx and powercon... I also have about 400' of various lengths of feeder... Nothing major, but it is a pain in the butt to have too much cable at the show, and I'm forever looking for trunks to put all the "end of the truck" stuff in.... I'm thinking emptying the trunks of cable and packing smarter would be the trick here...
 
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Big things like Snakes and Feeder I just leave in their own dedicated road cases. I dont feel there's any need to pull them out between shows. I have a couple of premade cable "packages" for large festivals that include all the AC and NL4 for a large festival stage. Those packages also live in their cases so they're always packed and ready to go. All of the small system and excess cables live in simple plywood bins for big cables, and rubbermaid totes for small and misc cables on wooden shelves. They get wrapped and sorted back into their respective places after each show, and packed into cases on a per-show basis for smaller events.
 
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We've got a bunch of 16ga Soca in trunks just so we can conveniently move it around the shop. I vote for leaving feeder in trunks. It's a pain the ass to mess with on a show by show basis. Also I tend to package stuff that routinely goes out together - NL8 cables and jumpers for the 4889 rig, amp rack power cables, stuff like that - into SL/SR trunks that go out together on a big show and conveniently have enough in each to split the rig for 2 stages.

Our KF850 rig doesn't go out much and its cabling is hanging on the hooks, along with the extra long NL8 and NL4 that is needed for the summer season. Monitor speaker NL4 are hanging, too, along with the lighting dept AC and DMX cables.

We're about at the point to need inventory control and management software...
 
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Tom Manchester said:
Big things like Snakes and Feeder I just leave in their own dedicated road cases. I dont feel there's any need to pull them out between shows. I have a couple of premade cable "packages" for large festivals that include all the AC and NL4 for a large festival stage. Those packages also live in their cases so they're always packed and ready to go. All of the small system and excess cables live in simple plywood bins for big cables, and rubbermaid totes for small and misc cables on wooden shelves. They get wrapped and sorted back into their respective places after each show, and packed into cases on a per-show basis for smaller events.
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+1. Heavy shit stays put. Frequently used "system" packages stay together, and the rest lives on shelves.





Evan
 
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