Re: Cable care

["John Tudor" jtudor2005]

--- In  Syd Curtis <> wrote:
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>
> Take the end of your cable (the last coil you made, letting it loose >as =
necessary) and starting a metre or more from the end, wind this >firmly and=
 neatly around the bunched coils about 5 times working away >from the short=
 loop of the coils, then 3 times back.
>
> You need to have half a metre or so of free cable left.  Form this >into =
a small loop, push it through the looped coils, then open it out >enough to=
 bring it back over the outside of them.  Pull the end >tight.

I think you need to be very careful doing this. Wrapping the end around the=
 coil and pulling it tight is OK for rope, but could cause you to exceed th=
e 'minimum bend radius' of the cable and cause damage to the internal struc=
ture.