A few tips on stowing your 550 cord or any small cord.

I would think that paracord would work well stored in a similar manner as a center-pull ball of yarn. Here's a basic instructional about making a center-pull ball.

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LOL Id love to knit myself a paracord jacket. :p

That would be fine to do once as for her application, but i think any cord you had to use and roll over and over again would get super twisted for having been wound so tight. Might be a good way to store it away though! How do you make the vid show here like that. (Im technologically inferior :D)
 
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Lol doh! I think i go tit....mayyyybe....thanks for that!
 
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just a variant of the over-under method which roadies and stage hands have long used for ropes and cables

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If you don't know and use over-under, right now is a good time to view some of these videos and learn it. It's good for rope. It's good for all sorts of cables, extension cords, that sort of thing, and it's good for hoses too.
 
Gollnick said:
just a variant of the over-under method which roadies and stage hands have long used for ropes and cables.
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Just remember that if you unspool it wrong you end up with a line full of knots. Only sound guys like over/under.

And Stagehand is one word, capitalized. Just like Engineer ;)
 
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if you have longer lengths just double the cord up once or twice. not real great if you need a small section of cord from the large section
 
the trick to over under, is start with two overs, and end with two overs, works wonders.
oddly all the lighting guys I know love it, and the audio guys don't, but then the audio guys I work with most stick to 25 footers and the lighting guys run 100 foot 5wire which has a mind of its own!
 
Gollnick said:
If you don't know and use over-under, right now is a good time to view some of these videos and learn it. It's good for rope. It's good for all sorts of cables, extension cords, that sort of thing, and it's good for hoses too.
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I try to teach all my guitar playing friends this... no one ever wants to listen a drummer about how to wrap their cables though! That's okay though, it's their money being flushed down the toilet on broken cables :D
 
Gollnick said:
just a variant of the over-under method which roadies and stage hands have long used for ropes and cables...
..cords, that sort of thing, and it's good for hoses too.
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Thats how I roll up all my air hoses and drop cords at work. I cant get the other guys to do it worth a dern though...there kinda stubborn like that. I absolutely hate having to waste time undoing knots and loop problems instead of just picking up the end of the cord and walking off with it to do the job. But I guess its too much extra effort to get them to flip thier hand around when they roll stuff up. Rant off :D
 
Very informative post! Thanks for sharing. I just fought with a hose in my garage yesterday and am going to try wrapping it up again but this time using the over/under technique.
 
I work in the marine industry. And I can tell you nobody uses over under on commercial fishing boats. And its never a problem for me to throw a line if I have coiled (not wrapped) it by repeatedly going "over" I've also never experienced any kind of damage to welding leads, air hoses, water hoses, 110 cords etc.
What ever works for you though. Thanks for the info and I may try it out tomorrow at work.
 
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