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Knots and kinks in cables
The cable on my Flymo hedge trimmer (and to a lesser extent that on my
Flymo lawnmower) is forever tying itself in knots. No matter how often I try to unkink and straighten it, it always curls into knots again. Winding it around something doesn't help. Any suggestions on overcoming this? Thanks. |
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On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:24:09 +0100, John Moppett wrote:
The cable on my Flymo hedge trimmer (and to a lesser extent that on my Flymo lawnmower) is forever tying itself in knots. No matter how often I try to unkink and straighten it, it always curls into knots again. The inside of a cable is rather like a rope. When you coil the cable up you need to twist it slightly in your fingers so that it follows its natural curve. If you are righthanded, hold the coil in your left and feed on with the right, twisting it by rolling you forefinger across your thumb, away from your body Coiling cables is something that many people can't get right. The above method works but when you just take an end and walk away with it you end up with the twists still in the cable which means it won't lie properly and the twists may well build up each time you coil it. There are two solutions: One lay the cable on the ground in a figure of 8 pattern and just keep following the same base fig of 8. This is good for thick heavy things like hosepipes. You can just pick up the free end and walk away with no kinks twists or loops. For lighter cables you can hand coil but each twist you put in is in the opposite direction to the previous. So they cancel out when you walk away with the end. The only danger is if you take the end through the coil before walking away, you can end up with a whole line of knots. However they are all tied in the same direction so you can just take an end (doesn't matter which one) back through them all and carry on pulling and they all magically disappear. I don't think I can explain how to alternate the twists as you coil a cable but these YouTube videos show it quite well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqbYyaUY5Sk This is the way I do it, some of the other ways seem very cack handed to me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLBUzmA4kTU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLwwB29uQRg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaEv9wm6gy0 This is an interesting variation I cam across looking for the above. Not very neat or compact though, I can see all those open loops getting caught round every tool in the shed... I wrap cables for a living as a Broadcast Sound Engineer... -- Dave Liquorice MIBS Broadcast Sound Engineer Alston, Cumbria, UK "It's all right leaving me." |
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"John Moppett" wrote in message ... wrote: The cable on my Flymo hedge trimmer (and to a lesser extent that on my Flymo lawnmower) is forever tying itself in knots. No matter how often I try to unkink and straighten it, it always curls into knots again. Winding it around something doesn't help. Any suggestions on overcoming this? Thanks. The inside of a cable is rather like a rope. When you coil the cable up you need to twist it slightly in your fingers so that it follows its natural curve. If you are righthanded, hold the coil in your left and feed on with the right, twisting it by rolling you forefinger across your thumb, away from your body And reverse the process when unwinding it, if it is still not strait uncurl it from the end before using it. Alan |
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wrote in message ... The cable on my Flymo hedge trimmer (and to a lesser extent that on my Flymo lawnmower) is forever tying itself in knots. No matter how often I try to unkink and straighten it, it always curls into knots again. Winding it around something doesn't help. Any suggestions on overcoming this? Thanks. Buy a petrol mower duh!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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wrote in message ... The cable on my Flymo hedge trimmer (and to a lesser extent that on my Flymo lawnmower) is forever tying itself in knots. No matter how often I try to unkink and straighten it, it always curls into knots again. Winding it around something doesn't help. Any suggestions on overcoming this? Thanks for all the advice. I'll see if it will solve the problem though the cable is quite stiff (not loose as in the video) so it may not. |
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