Cable mount

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I had these cables falling off my desk because they were no longer attached to the notebook. So I printed a cable mount, which is secured with a printed screw to the desk. Actually, I just wanted to test out how printing screws work. Choose a coarse thread and design the screw to about 90% of the outer thread's size. You need some tolerance between them, otherwise the screw won't fit properly. With a 4.5 mm screw, I believe I've reached the limit at which my printer (Anet A8) can print a thread effectively. Bigger sizes worked much better. So this consists of a total of six printed parts and three M3x8 metal screws. The printed parts are: A mount to the table plus a big screw to attach it A plate with a cable holder, which is screwed with metal screws to the table mount Three printed screws to fasten the cables It doesn't look nice and I'm not sure whether it will last long, but for now it works fine. My table is 22mm thick. For smaller tables, you can just add material in between, like folded paper should work. If your table is wider, you need to redesign the table mount. Done with Solidworks + Cuda and printed on Anet A8 Update six months later: still working, haven't done anything. Cables are not that complicated once you get those organized.