Bongo Fury

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? )

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.

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.

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!!

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

As a temporary measure I got some of these, very easy to use and handy for all manner of things
http://www.rapstrap.com/

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

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