I like to use colored heat-shrink tubing to mark my cables. You can
decorate them with a Sharpie permanent pen before shrinking to give
them extra character, too.


At 02:01 PM 3/14/2011, you wrote:

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