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PSA: that $60 box of cable labels I bought? Total waste of money

Last month I spent a lot of time running new cat6 through my attic for the home office. I figured I'd get fancy and bought a whole pack of numbered cable labels and a label maker. Cost me about $60 total. In the end I just wrote on masking tape with a sharpie and it worked way better. The labels started peeling off in the heat up there after like 3 weeks. Plus the label maker jammed on me twice and I tossed it in a drawer. Now I got 500 labels I'll never use. Has anyone else found a decent way to keep cables sorted without spending a fortune?
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rivera.henry
Did you try cleaning the cables with alcohol before sticking the labels on? That made a big difference for me when I was labeling stuff in my workshop.
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ross.river
ross.river10d ago
@rivera.henry honestly you just changed my mind with that tip.
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