seems like we all roll/coil up are extension cords one way or another, but this way seems to help prevent problems that you will encounter later...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeUgSzH8GHQ
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seems like we all roll/coil up are extension cords one way or another, but this way seems to help prevent problems that you will encounter later...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeUgSzH8GHQ
Thank you, I'm going to try the bucket method
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I roll mine up like this.
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...f224a6b8f2.jpg
There's a name for it, but I don't remember. It all comes loose quikly without any tangles and is quik to tie back up.
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I have a friend who is a camera operator for a local TV news department showed me the over/under technique years ago. The cords/cables always lay flat and never tangle. With just a few minutes practice, it's really easy to do.
One of Mike Phillips pet peeves is the rolling of the cords in the garage.
We called it a daisy chain in the Marines.
Its the way we rolled up climbing/repel ropes.
i was once inspected by the fire depot and they called one extension cord connected to another daisy chaining.
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Sprinkler fitters use that knot for extension cords. Problem with it is if you pull it from the wrong end you have a mess.
I was in the divers local out of Manhattan. We all took a rigging class and the way they taught to coil things up is over and under. When done right you don't get a$$holes in the lines or cords. After its coiled up, take one end and go around 3 times then you do do this little deal at the top to hold it all there. When its done you are holding one end of the cord.
don't know if the cords were already like that prior to coiling/rolling them up (the pic on first page) but they both look to have some (licorice) twisting in them...
Guys I am also in the professional audio business (commercial audio sound systems, Scott Hibbard Audio LLC Home) and have coiled probably no less than 10,000 cables in my 30 years in the biz (no kidding - sometimes as many as 100 per night during concert season. The ONLY way to coil a cord is the under/over method. Done properly this will guarantee that the cable never gets tangled. The key is the little twist of your fingers to "show" the cable the way as it goes over/under. Never use the around the arm method.
ScottH
At my parent's house tonight and had to use the extension cord. I was all excited because I watched that video yesterday. Long story short. The cord had so much memory from being rolled up a different way that I couldn't get the cord to wind the way I wanted it to.
That's the same exact video I learned it from! Lmao.[emoji2] That video has to be at least 2 yrs old because it's been a while.
And I'm not sure which knot eaglefan's referring to opening up the wrong way and having a mess, but this perticular knot is virtually impossible to open up anyway but the right way. It always opens up on the side of the plugs. I don't even think it's possible to open it up on the other end.
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That's right.
We have up to 26 cords pulled at one time, all plugged in and buffers running.
Autogeek's Show Car Garage is wired to run up to 30 polishers at one time without blowing a fuse. Pretty cool and something most people don't consider when thinking about what it takes to hold a pro grade detailing class like we hold here at AG Comp Ready Classes.
Even tonight, we'll have 20 cords pulled for the Buick and the FJ40 we're buffing out starting at 5:00pm.
When the work is done, I teach my class to pull cords, that means get them off the floor and back on the cord cart and when they pull their cords we use the Cowboy Coil to coil them up. It's the only way to go to preserve your cords, avoid a huge tangled mess when you deal with so many cords and avoid kinking or twisting the cords.
We pull cords and wrap tools.
When we shoot our TV show and I have a team of guys, some that have taken my class and some that haven't, it's real easy to see who's taken the class when I say,
Pull cords and wrap tools
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Ive seen it a few times become an absolute mess and it takes forever to get undone. However Ive seen guys pull it apart no problem also. Im not saying its the wrong way to do it at all.
Dive hoses, welding cable, cords, rope, hogging line, everything that could be coiled up over/under was and had to be.
Improperly stowed lines--I mean cords.. the bane of ex-Navy men.
Never paid a lot of attention to storing away my extension cords. But the licorice effect did annoy me. It's funny how after I'm done using my pressure washer, I always use the over/under technique for my hose.
Thanks for the tip guys.
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My favorite way to coil up a cord when done.
http://ccc.chiarc.com/partsdata/retr...cord_reel4.jpg
Guys if you have cords without "memory" lay them out in the sun (uncoiled of course) and preferably on the driveway where it will heat up. Then coil it up (over/under) and put a cord wrap/velcro strap on it and you'll be all set. Within a day or so it will retain its cord memory and be all that much easier to coil from that point forward.
ScottH
I mainly use a retractable ($25-$40) that I have connected to the center of my ceiling with clips on the right and left to keep it off the vehicles. Works great. When I use a regular one I hold it in my left hand, I then use an old white athletic sock (I keep a stack in my cabinet for various uses) on my right hand to pull it in and go from right to left making small loops without twisting the cord. The sock helps wipe grime off it as I coil it.
But doesn't temperature affect coiling/wrapping? Absolutely, there's a big difference between wrapping a cord that's warmed up in a heated area and one that sits in a cold garage, no?
Absolutely agree, Steve. Electrical cords, like my water hoses, behave differently with temperature and they are tougher to deal with when colder. I let my cords (and hoses) "find" the way they want to be wrapped or coiled. the way i do that is to extend the chord at arm's length and then coil it up the way it wants to coil. When you do that you can see which way it wants to "twist" and wrap it in that direction.
I also "detwist" my cords as i work a few times during the job.
Some GREAT ideas in this thread for a problem i hate...twisted up cords!
I use the cord pro. Keeps cords neat and all I need
Over Under method....did it for 12 yrs on the same com chord and never got twisted
I will have to give the over under technique a try....
I think in the bucket method there is a great possibility for the bucket to fall down when the extension cord is pulled. But all the methods are good..
Over / under method for me. Easy and foolproof. Never have an issue or tangle.
*bump* :)
^^ this. The type of cord is important too. The typical orange and green ones are more of a PIA over time, especially in cooler temps. I have a couple 15ft-25ft ones I use for my leaf blower when drying and I'm not sure what brand they are but they are super flexible and don't "kink" or have a memory like many others. Over and Under gathering it up in my left hand and wrapping it with my right works like a charm.
I tried the orange cord rollers and just like they said in that video, they just roll too tight at the bottom, no good.
Used to do the old arm wrap but again, just like they say, makes it a hot mess to unwind.
I have a 100ft cord from the old electric weed eater that I learned to daisy chain on, and for that it works great.
Shorter cords it defiantly works but it isn't as handy.
I really have to get better at the over/under roll.
I have started using this and works for me.
there's a few different ways to do the same thing, just need to find a way that makes it easier for you. here's another way of doing it as well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIHW4oj-NcI
:bump: extension cords are just as important as the tools we use with them, so avoiding any sort of
(licorice) twist from the start will extend more life to them...
I don't think I could get used to that over under method. And don't ya just love it when a person leaves out important information such as how he said to tie it once you're done, but didn't even take a moment to show how to tie it...
It's probably just me though, I'm the type of person that needs the directions to be complete when I happen to be following them... Leave them unfinished and I'm very bad at completing them sometimes. Same thing with typos, they tend to confuse the heck out of me and I have a hard time figuring out what people meant to say if their post is full of typos.
I'll stick to the knot method that's been working for me. Plus it rolls up the cord twice as fast and ties itself.
Ive never looked forward to going to roll up an extension cord before...thanks! Gonna try this today.