Cable Guy

[PerranOak]

I've had an extension reel for years and it has this plastic thing on it:

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• PerranOak
• 14 Nov 2012
• 1

I've just bought a new reel and it has one too !!!

What's it for?

Cheers.

 

[Click4]

mines got the same, im sure it serves a practical purpose of some kind.. maybe one that I have just not thought of lol.

So no idea what its for.

 

[pjcomp]

Put in the right position it's supposed to stop the cable coming off the reel, but I've never known it to work very effectively. but like all such things, once a manufacturer has started something they never know when to stop

PJ

 

[Chri5]

It's a hand brake. Wind in, twist towards the spokes and the spokes stop it un reeling.

 

[Lectrician]

Yep, it's to lock the wheel - look at the wheel, it has 'spokes'.

 

[EFLImpudence]

D'oh. I thought it was to put your soap on.

 

[PerranOak]

Ah ha!

Thank you for that. I tried it and it works!!,

Can't see the point though.

 

[Chri5]

Ah ha!

Thank you for that. I tried it and it works!!,

Can't see the point though.

Have you never experienced the wheel spin? The same beast that means you have to uncoil the whole damned lot when you only needed 5m and have 15m of a 25m roll twisted round itself, the frame and anything on the floor?

It is very useful, more so on frictionless reel.

 

[xr4x4]

...untill your dozy apprentice plugs in a wall paper steamer...!

 

[PerranOak]

Oh. I thought that you were supposed to un-reel all of it every time?

To stop heat build-up or something.

Hmmm.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Oh. I thought that you were supposed to un-reel all of it every time?

To stop heat build-up or something.

Hmmm.

it depends on the load.
Most reels have a note that tells you the max current that can be passed both wound, and unwound.