A ridiculously cheap cable riser.


It’s made by Grip-Rite, who named it the "Individual Plastic High Chair". It’s intended use is to support the rebar rods employed in the laying of concrete, and can be found at Home Depot in bags of 20 for $5.08. That’s just slightly more than a quarter apiece!

To use simply slide your power, speaker, and/or interconnect cable through the two raised "arms" that form the open semi-circle you see in the pic (what you can’t see very well is the flat circular base of the Chair). Or, if you wanna get really nutty, loosely stretch a rubber band between the two arms, thereby creating a bridge across the open semi-circle, upon which will rest the cable, 2.5" above the floor.

Cute, ay? ;-)

 

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@bdp24 thanks for posting this! These could be great at supporting heavy power cords. 

+1 for the 3/4 in pipe insulators. $7 did my whole system and they can also be used to create some separation between power/signal/cable/ethernet cables.

My wife was really impressed when I made mine out of toilet paper rolls! I was sent to the woodshop abruptly and told not to return unless I had replacements. Took me a week to build emm.

This thread is a hoot! I would never spend a lot of money on cable risers. But, a few years back, I was offered a bag of 10 trapezoid cut foam pieces for a few bucks. For that price, and the price of these rebar seats, I figured there’s no harm in trying them.