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just confused
Now this has nothing to do with fly fishing just wanted to grumble. Why is it when you very carefully wind a extension cord up and connect the 2 plugins together and hang it where it goes very carefully when you take it down to use it and you go to streach it out to its length for some reason it has 2 million knots in it and if there is anything near that can get tangled in it BANG it does. I was trying to finish my tomato stands and this happens every time. By the way if anyone wants my plans for tomato cages I will give them to ya just e-mail me. You have to promise one thing though---- you will not make them square or perfect the first time and everytime there after. I would hate to see good americans loose their jobs. If you can't get them to go together right then you have to curse and grab a beer, a cig, and yell at the wife "Why do you want these ***** things anyway" That way the beer factory employees and the tobaco companies and the divorce attornies all have jobs.
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harleybob87,
Good question on the extension cord plus why is it if you straighten out the cord and attach it to your electric hedge/bush trimmers the cord will "jump" into the trimmer blade about 1 1/2 foot down from where it is plugged into the trimmer and get cut into??!! http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif
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Warren
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You have been visited at night by the Knot Gnome. Be thankful that is all he tied in knots. Keep you fly reels hide away...least you find out one morning streamside your 444 is a birds nest and you will spend all morning cursing the Knot Gnome.
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I was winding up an extension cord one day ..
over the shoulder and around the elbow.
A man and his son were walking by.
The boy says " Dad, why is that man winding up that extension cord that way? Doesn't he know it will get all twisted doing that?"
The father says " Son, some people just don't know". http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif
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Dudley hit it! ALWAYS put electrical cords away in large, loose coils. If wound tightly around anything, they will not only twist, but the interior wires will weaken & break quicker, thus shortening the life of the cord.
Another hint is that when loosely coiling a cord attached to an item, such as a vacuum cleaner, start AT the appliance & pull the loose cord toward the item. That way, if there ARE some twists, they will have a better chance of working out. If you worked from unattached end TOWARD the appliance, any twists would only twist more tightly.
Mike
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You can call me Mike & you can call me Mikey..Just remember that this site's about sharing!
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Another extension cord tip. When winding up your cord around your shoulder and forearm or when using any other body parts to wrap cord always start at the receptacle end. This will force you to unplug the cord before wrapping and perhaps save you from having a shocking experience.
Please don?t ask how I came up with this tip.
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Reminds me of the time I installed the key switch on my garage door opener(days before keyless entry).It made sense to me to strip the wires with my teeth. Saliva is a great conductor of electricity. Hmmmmmm.
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Back when i used to work building high rises, we used to tell all the apprentices to carry an(extension)cord with them at all times. If they were to fall down a shaft or over the edge the cord would surely get tangled on something and they could just hang on until someone came to their rescue.
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"Wishn I wuz Fishn"
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And EVERYONE missed the point. When winding an extension cord on your hand/elbow, CROSS the cord across your forearm on each loop. Yes, I know, it's like describing a knot in words. To the "describer" the instructions are clear as day while to the "describee" it's all french. Just do it.
Mark
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I'd rather be in Wyoming!
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Nonononono. When a cord is wrapped that way, every wrap gets a 180-360-degree twist. By "design". If you were to unwrap the cord the same way, it would untwist the same way. But most folks take the short cut and pull an end axially, keeping every twist. You can avoid the twists by purchasing a cord reel for about $10, so that as you wind (roll) the reel, not the cord, it will go on the reel without any added twists, and unwind the same way. Same as a fly reel instead of a spinning reel; see, it is related.
The figure 8 in the -1 post can work if you twist just the right way and cross just the right way. Works great with garden hoses and other thick cables for the floor/ground.
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Keepeth they back cast out of the freakin' flora.
[This message has been edited by DavidInMD (edited 25 May 2006).]