Hook up cable storage

clutha · Post by **clutha** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:36 pm

What works for you?

The nice converters have given us a huge length of cable and they put it on an old cable reel.

What I'm thinking of getting is a cable winder but want to get something basic that takes up minimum space.

Any ideas?

(Make one from some plywood?

)

Furydav · Post by **Furydav** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:19 pm

clutha wrote:What works for you?

The nice converters have given us a huge length of cable and they put it on an old cable reel.

What I'm thinking of getting is a cable winder but want to get something basic that takes up minimum space.

Any ideas?

(Make one from some plywood? )

depends how much space you have to use, simple cable ties do the job for me and store it under the bed. You can buy zipper bags for them i believe but not sure what they will cost you.

briwy · Post by **briwy** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:14 pm

Zipper bags are about a fiver from GoOutdoors. Well worth it, easy to get the cable in and stops all the crap coming off the cable onto anything else as I cant be bothered cleaning/wiping 80ft of cable all the time.

Post by **Alison01326** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:46 pm

briwy wrote:Zipper bags are about a fiver from GoOutdoors. Well worth it, easy to get the cable in and stops all the crap coming off the cable onto anything else as I cant be bothered cleaning/wiping 80ft of cable all the time.

We use a cable bag too, for exactly the same reason - also it's somewhere to keep the continental adapter, the polarity reversing adapter, the polarity checker and the domestic 3 pin plug adapter because otherwise we can't find them when we need them!!

winchman · Post by **winchman** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 7:39 am

I like the bag idea best but I got one of these for free, so I am using that
http://www.towsure.com/product/Mains_Ex ... torage_Bag

clutha · Post by **clutha** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 6:05 pm

As a temporary measure I got some of these, very easy to use and handy for all manner of things

http://www.rapstrap.com/

Post by **Bob** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 6:46 pm

Don't forget you need to unroll the cable when in use, coiled up it can overheat if running near capacity.

clutha · Post by **clutha** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 6:51 pm

Bob wrote:Don't forget you need to unroll the cable when in use, coiled up it can overheat if running near capacity.

Yup, my better half learned the hard way while I was offshore, melted me extension

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