"john reeves" wrote in message ...
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.


PVC cable is a lot more well behaved in summer temperatures, God's way of reminding
you that your lawn can look after itself this time of year.
--
Graham.

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