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I'm in the process of updating my workspace. I painted the walls of my garage (concrete block) and I'm running all new electric service and runs. In the spring I may put down one of those epoxy floor systems. I'm also replacing my crappy old boombox stereo with a kicka** amplifier, preamplifier, and tuner along with some vintage kicka** thumping speakers. I built shelves for the speakers that mount in two corners of the garage. And because one of the speakers is about 50 feet away from where I'm putting the stereo (I put the stereo in a wall cabinet to protect it some), I had to buy some heavier speaker wire of 14 gauge.
The problem I'm having is finding cable staples to secure the wire. It's flat speaker wire and measures about .282 across. I've been to 4 different stores looking for some type of low-voltage staple to secure the wire, but can't find anything appropriate. I've done a bunch of Google and Bing searching too and all I can seem to find is those 3/16" staples. I have some of those Gardner-Bender, low-voltage staples, the plastic ones with the single nail, that have the 3/16" slot, and the wire will not fit into the slot of the staple. I found some 1/4" staples, but they're for coax cable so they won't secure the flat wire, either. I know that .282 is larger than .250", but I was hoping that I might *possibly* be able to "force" the speaker wire into the slot and secure the staple. But, the staple has to have the "flat" type slot and not the kind with the radius used for securing round coax cable. You'd think they'd make 1/4" cable staples. Seems like a pretty nominal, common size to me.
Does anyone know of any type of cable staple that would work? Or, any other method? I'm open to suggestions. I would like the job to be neat. I'd like the wire to be secured well. I'm running it along the header at the front of the garage and then make a 90 degree turn along the outer ceiling joist to get to the speaker and I'd like it to stay in place and be straight without dips, etc. I can't secure the wire to the new electric conduit with zip-ties as that's illegal. Believe me, I would if I could as it would make this whole job easier.
I'm in the process of updating my workspace. I painted the walls of my garage (concrete block) and I'm running all new electric service and runs. In the spring I may put down one of those epoxy floor systems. I'm also replacing my crappy old boombox stereo with a kicka** amplifier, preamplifier, and tuner along with some vintage kicka** thumping speakers. I built shelves for the speakers that mount in two corners of the garage. And because one of the speakers is about 50 feet away from where I'm putting the stereo (I put the stereo in a wall cabinet to protect it some), I had to buy some heavier speaker wire of 14 gauge.
The problem I'm having is finding cable staples to secure the wire. It's flat speaker wire and measures about .282 across. I've been to 4 different stores looking for some type of low-voltage staple to secure the wire, but can't find anything appropriate. I've done a bunch of Google and Bing searching too and all I can seem to find is those 3/16" staples. I have some of those Gardner-Bender, low-voltage staples, the plastic ones with the single nail, that have the 3/16" slot, and the wire will not fit into the slot of the staple. I found some 1/4" staples, but they're for coax cable so they won't secure the flat wire, either. I know that .282 is larger than .250", but I was hoping that I might *possibly* be able to "force" the speaker wire into the slot and secure the staple. But, the staple has to have the "flat" type slot and not the kind with the radius used for securing round coax cable. You'd think they'd make 1/4" cable staples. Seems like a pretty nominal, common size to me.
Does anyone know of any type of cable staple that would work? Or, any other method? I'm open to suggestions. I would like the job to be neat. I'd like the wire to be secured well. I'm running it along the header at the front of the garage and then make a 90 degree turn along the outer ceiling joist to get to the speaker and I'd like it to stay in place and be straight without dips, etc. I can't secure the wire to the new electric conduit with zip-ties as that's illegal. Believe me, I would if I could as it would make this whole job easier.
