(posted over at IP as well but referred here as there might have already been a thread that someone could point me to!)
We have a takeover where the original installer mounted non-sliding rack in a cabinet that we are replacing with slide-outs. The cabinet itself was built fairly shallow so we don't have a ton of cable management room. What we are thinking of doing now is trying to find a small version of those pulley-type springs that wind up into themselves when tension is released. Basically, it will serve to pull the cable slack bundle up in to a wall cavity automatically when we slide the rack back in.
A regular spring might just work as well, but I wanted to throw it out here and see if anyone had ever done anything similar or had a better off-the-shelf solution so I'm not reinventing the wheel if it's been done before.
For clarification and another idea, one of the those retractable cord key fobs like janitors wear is basically the concept that I am thinking of.
