On Feb 20, 3:15*pm, "john reeves" wrote:
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.

It used to be common to find pvc flex stuffed with string, but its
never seen now, don't know why. If you can find such flex off an old
appliance (1960s, 70s) you should find it a fair improvement.


NT