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Re: Wrapping cables

Subject: Re: Wrapping cables
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Thu Dec 8, 2011 3:56 pm ((PST))
> I left it off my last email but there is an "over-under" way of
> wrapping cables learnt from sparks wrapping long 1" cables. It gets
> over the way cold cables tend to finish up like a tangled slinky toy.
>
> When coiling the cable in one hand, hold it between thumb and finger
> of the other hand and rotate it so it first loops the same way and
> then alternately throws a loop under, so there is no net twist in the
> coil.
>
> It is essential to tie the wrapped coil with string or whatever, as if
> it is uncoiled the wrong way it throws a series of knots. Once you've
> got the hang of it, over-under becomes second nature and all your
> cables lay nice and flat.

After 50 years of doing audio, I finally learned over-under from a video on=
 YouTube. I was practicing it religiously but sometimes I got, as you said,=
 a series of knots! What's the "right way" to uncoil the over-under coil?

-Dan





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