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Go Back to School with CableOrganizer®
By CableOrganizer®Backpacks coming out of hibernation and the smell of freshly sharpened pencils in the air can only mean one thing: it’s back-to-school time. While it’s always a shame to see...
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Cable Management
The DIYer Guide to Organizing Your Gaming Cables
By CableOrganizer®Intense gamers need to be just as serious about gaming cable management. You’ve invested some significant funds in your equipment and it’s important to protect it. Yes, safeguard the system...
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Cable Management
Ordering Continuous Lengths or Segments of Wire Loom, Braided Sleeving, and Heat Shrink
By CableOrganizer®When ordering products like wire loom, braided sleeving and heat shrink tubing, the product’s length is specified per line item. Some general information is below about how to order each...
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Server Racks
Sheet Metal Gauge
A sheet metal gauge (sometimes spelled "gage") indicates the standard thickness of sheet metal for a specific material. As the gauge number increases, the material thickness decreases. Sheet metal thickness...
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Material
IP Ratings (Ingress Protection)
The protection of enclosures against ingress of dirt or water is defined in the International Electrotechnical Commission(IEC) standard IEC 60529. Conversely, an enclosure which protects equipment against ingress of particles...
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Cable Management,
Cable Trays,
Material
What's the Big Deal About Zinc Whiskers?
You may think zinc whiskers sound harmless enough, judging by their name, but these microscopic zinc shards can wreak havoc on a server room or data center. Zinc whiskers can...
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Material,
Product Standards & Material Safety
Materials Spotlight: The Properties of Nylon 12
Even though it isn’t as widely used as Nylon 6-6, the semi-crystalline polyamide known as Nylon 12, Polyamide 12 and PA 12, has physical properties that make it an exceptional...
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Material,
Product Standards & Material Safety
The Facts on Polypropylene
WHAT IS POLYPROPYLENE? Polypropylene is an incredibly versatile thermoplastic polymer. Though many chemists began experimenting with it dating to the early 1870s, after chemists J. Paul Hogan and Robert L....
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Product Standards & Material Safety,
Wires & Cables
Facts on AWG
WHAT IS AMERICAN WIRE GAUGE? The American Wire Gauge (AWG), a wire-sizing standard also known as the Brown and Sharpe wire gauge, is used in North America to measure and...
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