Cone Shaped tool For Tightening VGA cables?

[Platypus]

I've got a cone-shaped tool you can use... huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh

 

[lxskllr]

I think your cone is backward. It should start wide, then get narrow for a friction fit, no? I like the pen body modification idea, or any kind of softish metal tube. Pinch the tube off a little, so it wedges in place on the thumb screw.

 

[gorcorps]

I think your cone is backward. It should start wide, then get narrow for a friction fit, no? I like the pen body modification idea, or any kind of softish metal tube. Pinch the tube off a little, so it wedges in place on the thumb screw.

I thought the same thing when I saw it, but figured the knobs were tapered to make that make more sense. Since they aren't according to that other pic, cone should be the other way.

 

[olds]

I think your cone is backward. It should start wide, then get narrow for a friction fit, no? I like the pen body modification idea, or any kind of softish metal tube. Pinch the tube off a little, so it wedges in place on the thumb screw.

I thought the same thing when I saw it, but figured the knobs were tapered to make that make more sense. Since they aren't according to that other pic, cone should be the other way.

It looks fine. now

 

[Phanuel]

I see what you did there.

I'd also say he looks like he solved it based on that pitcher!

 

[Ichinisan]

2015 and HDMI cables still cant 120hz.

Really?

 

[Ichinisan]

Yeah, crazy isn't it? I just got a shiny new Dell workstation today, and it doesn't have an HDMI port! Just a VGA port and 2 DisplayPort ports. My monitor only does HDMI and VGA, so I'm stuck with VGA.

DP can be easily adapted to HDMI/DVI (passively, I believe). Just get the right cable / adapter.

 

[AMCRambler]

Why don't you unscrew them out of the stupid plug and replace them with thumbs screws with slots or Phillips heads? I'm fairly certain you can replace them. The old Belkin parallel port cables had some nice long ones back in the day.

 

[gorobei]

large wire nut glued to the end of a stick?

 

[MarkXIX]

umm every VGA and DVI cable ive ever seen has a slot in it for a standard or Phillips screw driver. just use one of those

and yes at work, nearly every monitor runs on a VGA cable because that's what they have and they work fine. for standard office comps there is no benefit to go to something else

Never mind. Message received. Uh....Dremel a slot in those fucking things and call it good.

 

[CZroe]

Why don't you unscrew them out of the stupid plug and replace them with thumbs screws with slots or Phillips heads? I'm fairly certain you can replace them. The old Belkin parallel port cables had some nice long ones back in the day.

This, though I almost always took them out and left them out. I mean, how often does your printer or monitor cable just fall out? If you do move things around enough for that to be a problem, wouldn't you rather it fall out than damage the connector or pull a large device to come crashing down?

 

[CZroe]

2015 and HDMI cables still cant 120hz.

You have 120hz content?

 

[CZroe]

Yeah, crazy isn't it? I just got a shiny new Dell workstation today, and it doesn't have an HDMI port! Just a VGA port and 2 DisplayPort ports. My monitor only does HDMI and VGA, so I'm stuck with VGA.

HDMI was never meant for PCs and they are really only ever included for convenience or HT purposes. I'm actually annoyed that my current IPS monitor only has HDMI, but that's because it's 1200p and they wanted to save money (that resolution doesn't require dual-link DVI or DisplayPort). PC monitors are supposed to have DVI or DisplayPort. Having HDMI on a PC monitor is usually to help you connect your PlayStation and not your PC. Having HDMI on your laptop is for the flexibility to your TV or monitor OR a PC monitor.

HDMI and DVI are signal-compatible (only require a passive adapter). The main reason they replaced it with HDMI in home theaters is that HDMI carried audio for home theater equipment and there was no need for dual-link DVI resolutions (1080p was the maximum). The first DVI ports that allowed conversion to HDMI with audio took advantage of unused pins (single-link) and needed SPDIF inputs on your video card (no HDMI audio device for the system to see/use so they had to get it from your dedicated audio device). PCs already had display port by that time and it could carry audio or be adapted to HDMI or DVI and supported higher resolutions like dual-link DVI. Adding HDMI to your PC/video card's outputs was just for convenience or HTPC applications, like an old laptop having composite/S-Video output or a Media Center PC. It was never because PCs were expected to have them.

These super-small NUC and other PCs that don't have room for much more than an HDMI port chose that for maximum flexibility with minimal space for I/O (they usually don't support high resolutions anyway). They seem to be changing everyone's perceptions about what a PC is expected to have.

 

[Cheesemoo]

Hurry Scotty, more power, the tractor beam has almost got us!

 

[Childs]

umm every VGA and DVI cable ive ever seen has a slot in it for a standard or Phillips screw driver. just use one of those

Its not that uncommon. Just checked my box of cables and I have one without slots.

My cable is probably from 97-98.

Never mind. Message received. Uh....Dremel a slot in those fucking things and call it good.

Yeah, if you already have the cable loose just make your own slots for a standard screwdriver.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Guess how many of those thumb screws I've tightened over the last 5 years.

.... yeah not many. Almost never worth bothering with. Just plug it in and leave it.

 

[mikeymikec]

It's 2015 and people still use VGA cables.

I met a customer the other day who was using a CRT monitor... I haven't seen one of those in a while.

 

[lxskllr]

I met a customer the other day who was using a CRT monitor... I haven't seen one of those in a while.

Every monitor in the office aside from mine is a crt. I don't know why they do it. If I had to sit in front of a computer all day, I'd buy my own lcd to use. Fuck crts.

 

[ultimatebob]

HDMI was never meant for PCs and they are really only ever included for convenience or HT purposes. I'm actually annoyed that my current IPS monitor only has HDMI, but that's because it's 1200p and they wanted to save money (that resolution doesn't require dual-link DVI or DisplayPort). PC monitors are supposed to have DVI or DisplayPort. Having HDMI on a PC monitor is usually to help you connect your PlayStation and not your PC. Having HDMI on your laptop is for the flexibility to your TV or monitor OR a PC monitor.

HDMI and DVI are signal-compatible (only require a passive adapter). The main reason they replaced it with HDMI in home theaters is that HDMI carried audio for home theater equipment and there was no need for dual-link DVI resolutions (1080p was the maximum). The first DVI ports that allowed conversion to HDMI with audio took advantage of unused pins (single-link) and needed SPDIF inputs on your video card (no HDMI audio device for the system to see/use so they had to get it from your dedicated audio device). PCs already had display port by that time and it could carry audio or be adapted to HDMI or DVI and supported higher resolutions like dual-link DVI. Adding HDMI to your PC/video card's outputs was just for convenience or HTPC applications, like an old laptop having composite/S-Video output or a Media Center PC. It was never because PCs were expected to have them.

These super-small NUC and other PCs that don't have room for much more than an HDMI port chose that for maximum flexibility with minimal space for I/O (they usually don't support high resolutions anyway). They seem to be changing everyone's perceptions about what a PC is expected to have.

Yeah... this cheap 22" monitor that I'm using only had an HDMI port and a VGA port. I have TONS of old VGA cables lying around, so I just used that. An adapter cable would require me to put in a purchase request and spend days arguing with accounting. Not worth it

 

[twinrider1]

Rubber hose of the appropriate diameter and length. That should get them tight enough.

 

[Humpy]

Where'd you find a fat Turkish woman to hand model for that picture?

 

[shortylickens]

You have 120hz content?

Video games.

 

[Tombstone1881]

 

[CZroe]

Yeah... this cheap 22" monitor that I'm using only had an HDMI port and a VGA port. I have TONS of old VGA cables lying around, so I just used that. An adapter cable would require me to put in a purchase request and spend days arguing with accounting. Not worth it

Cable? I have one but so always use dongle adapters so I can use the surplus of straight cables I have around. A lot of video cards include DVI to VGA and DVI to HDMI dongle adapters. You sure you don't have a dongle adapter lying around already?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I service stat lab analyzers in hospitals and I tighten every last one of those suckers. Video, serial, parallel... All of them. The only real reason is that it would be a stupid thing to get a service call for, and in a freak-accident-act-of-God kind of circumstance could significantly affect the care and treatment of a hospital patient.