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Originally Posted by john reeves
This is about those extension power leads ( usually orange coloured from B &
Q etc). Quite often sold for use with electric lawn mowers.
These cables seem to have 'a mind of their own' every time you reel them up
and unreel them.
It's like a 'memory effect' they have, ( as if they are not flexible
enough ) and want to keep moving in a direction that they must have been
stored in previously.
This probably sounds like a minor thing. But the total time wasted and
frustration trying to unravel the thing mounts up time after time.
I've tried that trick sailors use in giving it a small twist every time you
reel it around your arm, but its just a bit too stiff to do that
successfully. Has anyone else found a good way to deal with this? It has
crossed my mind that this cable is just too old and has lost what
flexibility it did have once.
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have you tried to put it on a circular reel rather than wind it up around your arm, the copper core is metal and by flattening it around your arm, i think you are bending the copper core, thus making it hard to wind and unwind.(mis shaping the core) if you know what i mean? good luck,, spinksy