How it's made Coiled Cords

Scottex · 12 Jan 2016, 14:24

Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmzg6WMnf0

A neat video on how coiled cables are made, just replace the furnace at the end for a hairdryer to diy.
Very cool trick at the end on how to give them that compact look.

Engicoder · 12 Jan 2016, 17:19

Using an oven at a low temp (100-120C) for about 2 hours with the cord wrapped around a wooden dowel has worked well for me to recoil old stretched out cords.

XMIT · 12 Jan 2016, 18:03

Very nice! I see a re-coiling in the future for some of the IBM cables I've got around.

I've heard that there is an entire art to dealing with coiled cables that is lost on our generation.

seebart · 12 Jan 2016, 18:09

Yeah that's a great tip Engicoder, I'll have to try that. I'll admit I'd be hesitant to throw it in the oven at 120 C but if you say it works I'll try it.

webwit · 12 Jan 2016, 18:11

Just use a hairdryer.

Engicoder · 12 Jan 2016, 18:24

seebart wrote: Yeah that's a great tip Engicoder, I'll have to try that. I'll admit I'd be hesitant to throw it in the oven at 120 C but if you say it works I'll try it.

The video suggests 100C which would probably be better, but the lowest my crappy us oven goes is 250 F (~120C) so I had to use that.

andrewjoy · 12 Jan 2016, 18:27

This also raises another question. Why do otherwise intelligent people still use fahrenheit. Or base 10 maths for that matter. Give us base 12 !

Engicoder · 12 Jan 2016, 18:31

Lets all go duodecimal!

Muirium · 12 Jan 2016, 18:32

You can expect a mighty flame war on Fahrenheit vs. Celsius. Both of them are quite arbitrary, so it merely comes down to which one you grew up with.

Other metric measures though, yeah, clear win.

andrewjoy · 12 Jan 2016, 18:39

well no , old weights are better as they have more factors so you can split them up easy , its the same reason we should use duodecimal as its easy for day to day life . multiplication is easy in base 12 too.

For serious science yes the kilo is fine for now and for proper maths it makes no difference but for day to day life it would make things simple.

Its the same problem as dvorak has , it will never changed as its so engrained.

Muirium · 12 Jan 2016, 18:47

Day to day life is clicking Buy on Amazon. This isn't Victorian England any more, where you're ordering things in person by the quarter ounce drachm pound foot furlong from a man in an apron.

Well, unless you insist on going to a hipster shop. Artisanal moustache oil, ma'am?

andrewjoy · 12 Jan 2016, 20:02

We still have old 1970s style greengrocers and butchers round here and there stuff is 1/3 the price of the supermarket and is actually fresh.