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Extension cable loosing flexibility
On Feb 20, 11:33*am, Harry Bloomfield
wrote: john *reeves brought next idea : 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. Which is the wrong way to treat it. NEVER wind in around your elbow, it is far too tight a coil and will damage the flex. What I do is hold the plug end in my right hand then gradually add loops to my right hand, the loops just about long enough to reach the floor. For every loop I add, I add a twist to it, so it settles in properly. Finally I just hang it up on a hook. Feeding it out, start where I need the socket and work back the plug finally plugging it in. -- Regards, * * * * Harry (M1BYT) (L)http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk Far too tight a coil ? ROFL... Have you ever seen how small a spool of wire that type of cable comes off of at a hardware store ? The whole trick to managing cables like this is to ALWAYS store it the same way... I have seen some people store heavy duty extension cords by keeping them in a 5 gallon bucket with a hole for one cord end drilled in the side of the bucket near the bottom... ~~ Evan |
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Extension cable loosing flexibility
Evan submitted this idea :
Far too tight a coil ? ROFL... Have you ever seen how small a spool of wire that type of cable comes off of at a hardware store ? I'm well aware of that, but it not be constantly wound onto it and off it stressing the cable. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |
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Extension cable loosing flexibility
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:51:52 -0000, Harry Bloomfield
wrote: Evan submitted this idea : Far too tight a coil ? ROFL... Have you ever seen how small a spool of wire that type of cable comes off of at a hardware store ? I'm well aware of that, but it not be constantly wound onto it and off it stressing the cable. & it's the only done once that's the issue, every time you wind akoop you put a 1/2 turn of twist into the cable, you could of course just wind it without twisting it as a figure of 8, -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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