Tangled Cords?

Jim Saunders · From: Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

I saw a household tip recently that struck home. It suggests using the roller from toilet paper for electrical cords. I found it works great for instrument cords. Just wind the cord as usual, then shove it into the toilet paper roller. It makes a neat bundle that doesn't tangle.

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Skip Cole · From: North Mississippi

Jim, thanks for the tip. The only problem i have now is getting my pakseat to close with all that toilet paper in there.

How'd you like that new Mullen?

Skip

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Marco Schouten · From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I followed your tip, and someone used my pac-a-seat as a toilet

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CrowBear Schmitt · From: Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France

i've got a buddy that uses the same kind of trick, but instead of a roll of toilet paper, he uses dishwasher plastic bottle cut at each end w; a cutter
i use velcro to keep my cords together

John McClung · From: Olympia WA, USA

I've got a pretty good solution, too. Even neatly wrapped cords somehow get all tangled when trying to undo them. So I got a power cord reel, and hook all my cords together with 1/4 inch double female cord connectors. The cords roll right off the reel one after another, and they don't have all the kinks from being folded up, laying nice and flat on the floor. A little bulkier this way with the big reel, but works quite nicely.

Jim Saunders · From: Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

Dank je wel Marco.Was het een man of een vrouw?

D Schubert · From: Columbia, MO, USA

Those little pony-tail clips (two wooden balls and a short elastic band) work very well for all sorts of cords. And, when the cord is unwound, you can use them to secure the cord to mic stand, guitar legs, etc. Almost as inexpensive as T.P. rolls.

Jerry Hayes · From: Virginia Beach, Va.

For all my steel cords and the speaker cords and mike cables in my PA box I use those zip top freezer bags. They're nice to use and I write on the bag with a laundry marker to denote speaker or mike cable and the length, etc. They work great and never any tangles as you don't have to roll them so tight. I have one bag set aside and put the small patch cables for the CD/Tape player ect in that and another with spare mike clips. JH in Va.

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[This message was edited by Jerry Hayes on 01 March 2005 at 04:47 AM.]

LARRY COLE · From: LANCASTER, OHIO, USA

I cut up old curly cords in about four turns each and roll the cords up and twist the curly cord peices arond them. A mechanic in the shop saves me the heavy duty ones off the fork lift scales.

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Robbie Daniels · From: Casper, Wyoming, USA

Here lately I have started using Velcro Strips. They are about 4 to 5" long and work great holding the cords together. They even have a different colors at the top if you need to categorize the cords. Neato

David Doggett · Posted 1 Mar 2005 3:34 pm

Here's a way that requires nothing but the cord itself, and it shakes loose without any tangles twists or knots. Hold the two ends of the cord together. Find where the cord bends in half. Hold that bend just below the two ends, and find the quarter fold or where the bundle bends in half again. Keep folding the bundle in half until the bundle is about two feet long. Now tie it in a single loose knot - like a bow knot without the bow, or like half of a square not. Only pull the knot tight enough to hold.

To use the cord, untie the single knot, hold an end in each hand and shake the cord. It will unbundle leaving you with an end in each hand and an untangled cord between. This is an old seaman's trick that works like magic. Coiling a cord leaves twists, this way does not.

A key to this trick is to leave the two ends sticking out past the other bends in the bundle. This will keep them from flopping through one of the loops, which will cause a knot when you try to shake it out.

I've used this for ropes and electrical cords for years. It is simple as can be to bundle the cord, and so simple to unbundle.

LARRY COLE · From: LANCASTER, OHIO, USA

I give my cords a little twist when I coil them and they coil themselfs and I have never had a twist or kink in them. I don't let anyone roll up my cords.

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