Simple and neat box for wires

For a long time a pile of wires — a power supply from a monitor and a laptop, charging, and the like — was piled behind my monitor on the table. Not that they really interfered with me, but it was almost impossible to remove dust from this tangle, which is why on my table the dust blown in half with cat hair periodically rolled over my windscreen. However, recently I solved this problem by collecting a neat box for wires from the hand stuff. A very simple construction, a minimum of time and money spent - I hope that my instruction will come in handy to someone.



So, we will need:

- 1 plastic container of a suitable size (I used 4 liter);

- 2 polypropylene plugs for pipes 50 mm;

- 2 clamps for pipes per 50 mm;

- 4 blind screws M4 with a length of 12 or 20 mm;

- 4 nuts M4.

From the tools we need a knife and, preferably, a drill.

Let's start by marking the container:



Note the future holes for the plugs:



The easiest way to cut a container is with a heated knife, and then to finish the hole with a drill with a sanding drum nozzle and fine sandpaper. Final result:



Check if everything fits:



For a more secure fastening of the clamp, we drill two holes in it and in the plug and we screw in screws there. The easiest way to do the recesses for the screw head is to use a cone with a suitable diameter (I think that it would be easier and better to be spherical, but I didn’t have one):



It remains to cut a hole in the plug itself (preferably with a diameter of 40 mm) and put it all together:



The box is ready, it remains only to lay the wires. It was originally planned to drill holes along the edge of the plug and fix the wires to them with the help of cable ties, but it turned out that the wires do not fall out of the box anyway, therefore the need for such difficulties has disappeared. Thus, these plugs generally serve as a decorative element and, to a lesser extent, prevents the container wall from deforming where the holes are cut. I also assume that such a stub will reduce the likelihood that the container will burst through the opening (although it does not look like it plans to burst at all). So, the wires:



All that needs to be done is to run the wires through the plugs, leaving only the tails of the required length outside, and twist the excess with rubber bands or ties and leave them in the container. In addition, I threw into the container a small extension cord on three sockets in order to place stationary charges for gadgets in it:



That's all, now cleaning comes down to wiping dust from the container lid.



Before and after

Thanks for attention!