How engineers solve things: Cable isolators

By (author unknown), Core77August 09, 2010 at 01:52PM

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I found these doodads kind of interesting: They’re an engineering solution to the industrial problem of how to securely mount something heavy and vibration-prone, like a generator, to something else in such a way that the former doesn’t shake the bejeezus out of the latter and rip free of its moorings.

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Called Rope Isolators or Cable Isolators, they come in circular and linear variants and are designed to be corrosion-free, no-maintenance, no-lubricant-required devices.

Admittedly these are more of an engineered object than a designed object, but I’m digging their industrial-octopus aesthetic and am posting them here in the hopes one of you will incorporate them into some type of furniture design.

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