"john reeves" wrote in message
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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.


Get it warm, ie in the house and then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j1Wdc-ymbI

Mike



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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.