DIY Cable Box

I always have wires on my desk to soldering bridges on circuit boards. These wires tend to be a mess…

To tidy up my workspace I designed a little box to hold wires for soldering. 

This is version 2 of the spools and boxes with better spools and more variants!

You have the choice of 30 mm or 40 mm spools. 

• The small spools with 30 mm can hold up to 1.6 m - 2 m length of wire.
• The 40 mm spools are a bit wider and hold up to 5 m of ø 2mm cable.

For both spools there are now boxes for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 spools. For the small spools there is also a box for 6 spools. This way you have the freedom of choice! Just make a small one for your preferred cable or a bigger box with more spools of different colours.

Print Files

All print files are organised in two folders. One for the boxes and spools with 30 mm diameter and one for these with 40 mm diameter.

The filenames end with number of spools (-1,-2,-3,..) and the spool diameter (-30/-40). You have to print one upper box (box oben) and one bottom box (box unten) for the same number of spools and left and right spool parts as often as you need them.

The spools are printed in two parts and clipped together, be careful they are not very robust. The hole in the middle axis is for the end of the wire in order to make it easier to fill the spool.

Printing hints

There is nothing special about the print.

• Two walls
• 4 bottom layers
• 5 top layers
• 0.4 mm nozzle
• 0.2 mm layer height

Have fun!

You can find more DIY electronic prints in my hobby collection.