How to Coil a Cable Properly
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2015
- How often do you find yourself with a mess of cables? This is the CORRECT way to coil a cable to keep it neat, and extend it's life. Do it right, peeps!
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This method also works with garden hoses. A bit more difficult to implement, but boy, is it worth it! I walk up to a 100 foot hose lying on the ground, coiled like this, grab the end and walk away with it until it is fully extended without creating any kinks or tangles. Even better than a reel, since it's portable. Heavy as hell, but portable. I just grab one side of the coil and drag it over to the other faucet I might be using.
When you realize you're watching how to properly wrap cables, on a Saturday night.
Really!😂
If you came here to roll the cable correctly please check another video. This guy does it the right way but his hand movements only make it more difficult then it really is.
There is an easier way; you don't have to flip it over your forearm. Just alternate your grab as the cord hangs down in front of you, rolling the loop to the right, and the next loop to the left.
Exactly, this guy is really doing it the hard way. Also, try to get in the habit of starting on the same end of every cable, usually on the end that is going to be normally connected first, such as the male for an extension cord. If you toss it out from the wrong end it can result in a series of loops that will be hard to re-coil.
@@jlippencott1 (and jimmy5F) : Exactly. That's the way this guy does it : ruclips.net/video/B2SUoAvGxVs/видео.html
Agreed. I am dyslexic and over under confused my brain and dexterity
Thanks, this is the video that finally got me to do the 'under' part of the coil properly, so thank you. Ironically, you can hardly see what you're doing in the video and the audio is pretty terrible.... but I still got it thanks to you! Expelliarmus!
Yah, video focuses on head and shoulder. Should've lowered camera to focus my on the cabling.
In stead of doing the flip just reach under the cable and grab the cable backhanded then bring your hand back while turning it back to normal to make a under handed loop. What you are doing is figure 8ing the cable. You can take large cables and just make a figure 8 on the ground with the cable and you are doing the same thing. The first loop puts a twist in the cable and the underhanded loop takes it out. Works with rope also. Kinda awkward at first but once you get the hang of it you'll always do you cords this way because when you go to use the cord there won't be any of those loops and twists when you uncoil it. Nick, has the right idea but is doing it the hard way. I learned how to do this well over 40 years ago and have always coiled my cords this way, still have some that are over 20 years old and do not have any twists or kinks in them. Oh, if the cord is a long one that has been coiled wrong a few times, take it out in the sun and let it warm up before recoiling it. Easier to coil when the plastic covering is warm.
Omg thank you, the technique is awesome.
And also thanks for sharing this, I've been searching for a non-damaging technique for a long time. :D
I've been shown this technique and tried to master before but to no avail. That's until now after watching your fantastic break down. Thank you very much
Yep, been studying and not as easy as you think but this video is the one that got me doing it right. Many thanks.
Kennis Russel calls it "over/under", and starts the coil with the end hanging down, that is pointing toward himself, and the loops run clock-wise. The first loop you grab with you right thumb pointing up, and the next loop you grab with your thumb pointing down. There is no big spiral bulding up.
But I don't like pointing my thumb down.
Is it ok to point it sideways instead?
Thanks for this video I am a constolden for a school district and I used alot of cables that I need to wrap and I never know how to do it
"Do what you Love and Love what you do." True
No matter what you are doing, do it at your best. I tell my kids this all the time, do it properly the 1st time so you don't have to come back and redo it.
Thanks for the tips.
Fantastic! WORKS even with VERY unwieldly RG-213 transmission line coax!
Yeppee ;) first time was the good, easy method, easier to learn that way than some other for similar result.
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Best yet💙
I've watched several different videos purporting to be the best method but I still haven't found a better or faster method or one that prolongs the life of the lead longer than the one I've used for decades. It's just a matter of making the coils as long as your arm span.
thanks, I have tried watching 20 of these this morning and still not made sense of them! I watched yours 3 times and did it with my speaker cables and have perfected it! The Harry Potter image totally worked for me!! Now can you show me how to expand my two speaker PA set up to 4 speakers please?
Nice video. I hate it when I see people coiling around their elbows. Guitarists who do that are the reason why at school I would always leave a spare cable by their amp for when their cable inevitably failed.
The problem with over-over coiling is more to do with uncoiling though. If you coil over-over correctly, and uncoil it correctly, you still won't be putting twists in the cable. However, if you uncoil an over-over coil incorrectly (i.e. pulling the ends apart), you will get tangles and twists. The nice thing about over-under coiling is that you can pull the ends apart (or throw one end out (please don't do this though)), and there will be no twists or kinks.
The reason to recommend over-under coiling is that it is easier to learn to do correctly, and easier to uncoil correctly.
Also that sound company's argument is bogus. It takes all of 30 seconds to show someone how to coil a cable correctly.
I need to get a life if I'm watching videos on how to roll up a cord but I finally found someone that know's how do do it properly without ruining the cord! If you like his technique or not as long as you don't tie it in knot's Like a lot of people do.
Great thanks!
stupidly funny!!! 😂 and I was playing Vivaldi on the beckground at around 15:30 so the jokes are extra ridiculous I'm laughing harder in my head. Btw, I learned a lot. 😊
Nice work, mate. Thanks for the upload, I'll certainly need this in the future. :)
I'm on my last week of performances, and two of my actors have broken bones. The things we deal with.
They're not supposed to take "break a leg" _literally!_
I came to learn how to coil a cable properly, and THEN I came from all the sexual innuendos.... Then I subscribed.
I see it's been years since you've last posted a video, I hope you make more videos! I know it's a massive pain in the ass, you really do a great job, I appreciate the effort and sharing your knowledge with us. Peace.
this video needs to be translated to every language and the link put on every cable ever made
It is also easier if the cable connector faces you and you start your first coil clockwise.
aim the camera at your hands instead of your face PLEASE
I thought this was working great until my cord came out in a crazy knot. I guess that's why we don't coil climbing ropes like this.
I am just curious... are reels bad? Because i've got all my video cables on reels... and i just role them out and wind them up... is that bad? I know how to coil a cable correctly... i just hate doing it so much that i now buy all my video cables on reels.
Reel's aren't the greatest, but as long as you're not rolling them tight, you'll be fine. The over under is just for tidiness, the main thing is to not stretch the cable which breaks the inner wires and shortens the lifespan of said cable. So if the cables are a little loose in your reels it's not too bad.
Good method but
It is so much faster and easier to twist the cable to make the first coil, then simply to twist it the other direction to create the second. The hand do not change position so it is fast and easy.
May be not recommended tu o help the coiling of expensive cable with about a quater turn one then the other direction but it just helps it does not really twist the cable more than it is naturally by the coils.
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Thanks bro
Before watching this I literally thought the around the elbow way was best. Of course I don't work with audio/video equipment at all, so my interaction with long cables/extension cords is very infrequent. Still, I'll try to keep this in mind.
You literally thought?
wtf.. thank u. I be been searching on how to.. other tutorial are horrible in teaching.. ahahaha nice tutorial
Thanks ! Personally I recieve your skill level
A wireless system would be better but this video helps and a ' must' .for my computer cables are going to be properly.Now to store them in a compartmented way .I'm thinking out ok A Thumbs Up
That shirt is very “Broke Back Mountain “ !
I don't want any of your 'medicine', Doctor.
4:09 I'm really badass. Good to know.
Wow it's just a cable Winterplace upon new one
cant see.. try this again standing up!!
a bit long the video bro maybe 3 mins for this but welp :l
There are like no clear videos that teach the easiest way to studio wrap lol.
I have about 1k cables that i not used for over a year, i really need to know how to wrap them properly so they dont break...
Or just get rid of them?
Don’t get it
How about making a video on how to properly make a video on properly coiling a cable? To do that you just need to widen the view a bit so the viewer can see more than the top 10% of the cable you are coiling. OR just lower the camera a bit because we don't need to see your head and shoulders while you are showing how to do something around waist level.
*^^^ THIS !!! ^^^*
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It would have been more helpful if the cable was visable on the screen.
are you sure?
If cables came originally from the supplier wrapped this way, I would happily agree. However, I have never received a brand new cable wrapped this way. Personally I prefer to lay my cables flat, and wrap them onto a drum, ensuring they do not twist in the winding!
Wait... What? Cables for consumer electronics and computers come with twist ties in the middle. So is that a manufacturer recommendation of how to store and transport cable? Manufacturer delivery is unrelated to storage and transport. The entire entertainment and electrical industry uses over/under (and over/over, figure 8 and lazy 8 depending on the cable). Roadies, Gaffers, LX and Showies live and die by this method in USA, Europe and Australia (and other places I'm sure).
Ya this method seems all fine and dandy until you have to roll up multiple 100 foot 10 gauge cords.
Actually, the longer the cable is, the more important it is not to put a twist in it on every loop.
Stop being funny and just tell me how to coil a fucking cable thank you
Your coil is almost entirely out of view, your hands disappear from the field of view throughout-- so, your otherwise possibly helpful video is pretty much useless. Too bad.
most complicated way to do this I've ever seen. #FAIL
Not complicated. Simple (once you get the hang of it) I've been a sound engineer for 42 years and our cables are always ALWAYS wrapped by what is known as "over - under". Mic cables, coax and power. And the bigger heavier longer cables are wrapped on the ground using the figure 8 technique. Think 3 phase.
I even do my garden hoses over under.
@@alcraig1 i think this was maybe an overly complicated way of explaining the over-under technique. i'm like you though, I do over under for everything. It's in my blood now!
Although somewhat clever, the over-under method is _not_ the "correct" way. By far the best way to preserve the cable is to use a simple helical coil, paying attention to how the cable wants to lay. Uncoiling is the reverse, taking care to transition from coiled to linear without kinking the cable. If any of the coil remains, tie it off to keep it neat. If you're really sharp you can throw a coil out onto the stage so it uncoils itself. If you have a lot of cables to put into a road case, put a little spiral in the helix so it becomes more of a conical section. You can then stack them without a spindle, and they'll arrive in better shape.
If you need a cable that can be uncoiled rapidly by anyone, lay it down in a figure-8 pattern. This is how all excess power cable should be by default.
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