Wall Wart Hell!

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2006-10-17 04:34pm

I finally got tired of having all of the wallwarts collecting dust on the floor and also needed to clear a few items off of my desk.
So I stained some wood to kinda color match the cheapass paneling on my walls and screwed them into the wall studs.
Then I mounted the powerstrips, router, cable modem, and a few odds and ends on the boards.

It freed up a surprising amount of room on the desk and it made plugging and unplugging items in a lot more convenient.

The strip on the left is plugged directly into the wall socket and powers my printers and battery charger.
The horizontal strip on the right is plugged into my Belkin 1500VA UPS and powers the wall wart devices, a desk lamp, and a tape deck for cassette to CD dubbing.

The sad thing is there's still a wall wart plugged directly into the UPS because I don't have room on the wall for it.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2006-10-17 05:17pm

Oooh, nice! I think I have a project for this weekend, now.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2006-10-17 07:10pm

Alferd Packer wrote:Oooh, nice! I think I have a project for this weekend, now.

It was cheap and easy to do because I already had the lumber and stain as leftovers from previous projects, and I used a corded drill to drill the pilot holes while using the cordless drill as a screwdriver for the drywall screws that secured the boards to the studs.

That kept me from having to keep changing bits, and the corded drill has a lot more power than even a 19.2v cordless.

If I had to go buy the lumber I would have measured everything out and made it look a little neater by lining everything up and cutting the boards to the same size, but 'cheap' has a style of its own.
In fact, I almost left the wood unstained until I remembered that I had some stain leftover from a gunstock refinishing project.
Unstained lumber would have given it a bit of 'construction site chic'.

RThurmont · Post by **RThurmont** » 2006-10-17 07:36pm

Nice wood panelling, btw. Reminds me of the interior of a German railway car for some reason.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2006-10-17 07:54pm

RThurmont wrote:Nice wood panelling, btw. Reminds me of the interior of a German railway car for some reason.

It doesn't look bad for inexpensive paneling, but it's really thin.
Too thin to drive screws into, which is why I had to find studs to mount those boards on.

Maybe next spring I'll go buy some nice wood, stain and seal it, and redo it properly.
Until then, almost everything (except the print server which doesn't have anyplace to drill mounting holes into) is on the wall and off of the floor and desk.