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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.

Even the most expensive and flexible of cables take a 'set' - due to being
supplied on a drum of some sort or the other. So you still need to develop
a technique for tidy wrapping up. The trick is to coil it in the direction
it wants to go. And in a coil size it's happy with.

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*Sleep with a photographer and watch things develop

Dave Plowman London SW
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