Beyond zip ties: lacing cable
 

Do this the next time you re-rig your boat, and when a DCB owner starts bragging about how nice the rigging is on its boat with color-coordinated zip ties, etc, just ask him to take a look under the dash of your Skater:

Lacing cable

Not really

That reminds me of electrical distribution equipment built in the 50s or 60s. Good method if you want the cables tied together for 50 years, but would be way too cumbersome in a boat. Want to wipe the wires down, manually trace a wire or add a wire and you have to cut the whole thing apart.

Oh man the memories! I used to do that when i worked at Motorola back in the late 90's
We worked with 777MCM cable.....if you dont know what that is, google it and take a look what it looks like :drink: I think they use the stuff on locomotives! It carries like 700amps at room temp and can carry up to 1100amps at higher temps!! Its just under 1.5" in diameter and weights just over 2.5lbs per ft! It felt like wrestling an anaconda when running long runs and strapping them down!

I have not seen that in a long time. That is how I started and zip ties came around. We actually used the Ty-Wrap brand forever. Later on, we switched to 3M black, they are (UV resistant)

I worked in central offices AT&T its not fun to do, all the old Telco stuff was done like that

I started out building Military Base and Intelligence Community site telecommunications in the early 90s. Thank goodness I never had to deal with that crap.
BUT, all of the encrypted communications for Secret and above had to be run in CONDUIT. I may have been OK with the wax string after all.

Thank goodness fiber optics took over for copper backbones. Then things did not have to be as much conduit to protect from electronic emanations.