Fix Kinked Cables in Minutes
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Do you HATE having your cables look like tangled black spaghetti? Ever have somebody "help" you pack up, only to find all of your carefully coiled cables turned into a kinked cluster-f***? Here's a trick to get your cables back in shape in minimal time and with minimal effort!
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I don't have a heat gun, but I do have an oven! I wrapped a new, badly kinked 18' hanging lamp cord around my biggest soup pot and stuck it in the oven set on 170°, nudged it flat and straight every few minutes, then let it cool. Worked like a charm.
Kim Valles Very resourceful!!!
could possibly mess with the insides so makr sure that the setting isnt too high depending on the thickness of the cable
@@9vst9lxiv9 most cables have their temperature limit written right on them in a repeating strip of text
this is a high quality video. I'm neurotic about my cables and have jury rigged a good few straightening apparatuses, this is a good one
This is just what I was looking for! Tanks! I will be waiting for the cable management tutorial that you mention :)
Used a hair dryer but same concept. Had a vacuum cord that drove me absolutely bonkers. Now it unravels and stretches out normally again
Thank you brother. Happy holidays to you and your family.
Thanks I have been using a headset with an annoying kink in it and this works. I used my space heater instead of a heat gun and it did the trick.
My (only possible) living room setup is LG 4K flat screen on one end and couch abutting opposite wall, 25-30 feet away. Got a superlong audiocable (with the 3.5 cm female-female jacks, like a mic cord) for use with headphones but it almost instantly kinked up, basically negating the original reason for purchase. The cord is of MUCH smaller diameter than the PC power cords exhibited here. I wonder if this would be safe? Will try it with a 'light touch'. Great idea, by the way.
Thank you so much it worked! Instead of the heat gun, you can also you a blow-dryer.
Clusterf*** is my first thought when looking at the wire I need to fix.
Thank you very much good sir!
Let me just get my heat gun that I store in my back pocket- oh wait i dont...
You can cop a decent one for under $20 on Amazon (I got a compact one that I legit carry in my back pocket for about $12); it's a handy tool to have! Or if you really wanna go the cheapest possible route, wait for a hot, sunny day, wrap your cables as shown in the video, leave them in the car (or just outside in direct sunlight) for few hours, and come back to un-kinked cables! I used to do that before I had a heat gun; works like a charm, as long as the weather cooperates.
You could also use a water bath by using a large container to heat with whatever and store the boiling water in then another water tight container which you put the cables in
Yeah a heat gun, right. STUPID.
use hair drier for long enough it will work
Go buy one at a store like Harbor Freight Tools, dumbass. I wonder how you manage to wipe your own ass without toilet paper in your pocket, idiot. Oh wait, you use your socks, don't you?
I don't have a heat gun. Do you think I can use a boiler and work with the heat that comes out form the spout? It should be at around 100 Cº, but I don't know if it's enough to straighten the cable, or too much. Thanks
will a hair dryer work as a heat gun?
Won't the heatgun damage the cable's interior insulation layers? Like coaxial multi-layer cables with EMF protection or high density data cables like HDMI or USB or Thunderbolt? Fiberoptics? S/PDIF optical? I'm concerned to try this.
max temp limitation and heat flux management go a long way
but what are you supposed to do when your heat gun cable is kinked.......
This guy. Look at him. Look at this guy.
Would really like to see this on a 100-ft yellow 12-ga cord. I might have to try this with a 5-gallon bucket but even that may not be big enough.
Find your nearest grain silo
Should do the trick
trying to untangle my oculus rift s cable that is just twisted to such an extent that i cant even untwist it without another part twisting.
please help
perfect video! thank you so much, it always bothers me when my chords look a mess :)
ill have to try this. every time I buy something the cable is tightly bunched up with a twist tie. My new lamp cord refuses to lay flat on the ground and stay near the wall. Ill have to try this and see if I can get it to lay flat. Seems like it should work to get rid of the kinks from the packaging in the cable.
Will a space heater work?
SUPERB! Thank YOU!!!!
I saw the paint can and got worried this was gonna be complicated but then saw it was just for wrapping
If I hang it and take heat to it will that straighten it?
What about a propane tank with low flame, I like the idea of a clothes iron
My cable is connected to a pool vacuum. I can do this method but I don’t keep it coiled when not in use it’s just in my pool. How do I keep it from twisting up next time
Does this work for XLR Cables?
can we use hairdryer
What if it mets ?
Oh yeah my heat gun
I’ll just go get it one second...
*intensely breathes on the wire*
Pro Tip: eat more garlic to heat the cables faster!
@@russroll3258 Do Hairdryers Work Too?
he rly said happy cabling haha
Hi, I've just noticed that my keyboard cable has developed not just kinks but sort of like wrinkles on the bent part, should I be worried? Or is there anything I can do to eliminate those wrinkles? I'm kinda worried rn.
If it’s got a bend you might need a new one that happened to my phone charger and it no longer works
Does it work with hair blower? ._.
Heat is the key. I just boil water in a big pot and dunk the cable (not the connectors though) for half a minute, then the kinks are gone.
I wonder if this also works with a hairdryer.
Wouldn't recommend doing this with a fiber optic cable or any active cable.
Would a clothes steamer work? I figured it might because of the heat, but might not because of the water vapor. Any help would be great!
A blow dryer will also work
Can a hair dryer do the same job
Heat gun = girlfriends hair dryer
Where's Old Painty Can Ned when you need him.
I don’t have a heat gun and I’m not willing to buy one does a hair dryer work I have really messed up vr cables and I need them fixed and how hot does it have to be
Stevenman326 326 I imagine it would work - give it a shot and let me know how it works out!
Russ & Roll alright I’ll try it when I can
@@stevenlongacre326 you can wrap the wire around a cup and tape the ends, then just pour hot water into the cup and it will heat the wire :)
Would a hair dryer be hot enough?
Does this work with thin headset cables?
yes
Can I use a hair dryer as a heat gun?
Can I use the blower of vacume cleaner in place of hot gun
Nircatri I guess that depends on how hot the air is coming out of your vacuum cleaner! You can always try it and see what happens, but I would imagine that a heat gun is probably going to give you more heat, and faster, than a vacuum.
Russ & Roll, atleast the cable would be clean...
Going to try this on my GameCube controller
Same bro!
Am I *dumb* if idk what a GameCube is?
Asking for a friend....
@@nightsoulco I'm a month late, but a GameCube is an old Nintendo console, which had games on it like Super Mario Sunshine and Luigi's Mansion
@OneLonelyDoge oh ok, no problem but thanks for letting me know
How often do you need to do this and what causes a cable to develop kinks? 🤔🔌
The Pickle You only need to do this when the cable gets a kink - it’s not a preventative thing. Cables get linked by being twisted or bent, especially if they’re left in that position for a while. The best way to prevent that is to store unused cables in neat coils. I’ll be putting up a video soon on my favorite way to do just that!
How many minutes did it take for the cable to get “hot to the touch”?
Have you made the video on the over-under method?
Not long - 3-7 seconds maybe? It depends on the heat gun, the setting, how close you hold it, etc - I kinda just touch the cable every 3 seconds or so to check how it’s going. Not very scientific, I know lol
amber lively I haven’t made that video, but I’m definitely going to someday!
blow it until it gets worm
hair dryer should work to
I want the round cable to be straight
what about laptop cables with like wiggly waves in the cord and small lumps throughout the cord. not the Ferrite Beads.... like literally inside my cord i can see tiny bulges that feel hard and pointy....
Sounds like you have some kinks in the copper wire inside the cable. This method will help smooth out the jacket of the cable, but not the copper inside. It’s still worth a shot, it will probably help some, but might not be a silver bullet.
@@russroll3258 yeah i figured it was internal kinks. i just needed a sorta second opinion besides myself. thank you though. this method did help fix the issue beyond those lumps, because there's only a few of them. the cord sorta came like that so i am guessing it's a manufacturing issue.
Haha several minutes to untangle that cord, please xD it's like an infomercial. For real though, great tip.
Dustin Mulligan But wait, there’s more!
does heating the cable cause any damage? (over time)
I haven't had to do this to any cables more than once, but as long as you're not heating them to the point that you're melting the insulation, you'll be okay.
If you find you need to do this repeatedly... find whoever is messing up your cables and be mean to them until they stop! Usually works for me.
What about a hairdryer isntead of a heat gun?
you can wrap the wire around a cup and tape the ends, then just pour hot water into the cup and it will heat the wire :)
@@therahbi8546 hmm... Interesting
How do you fix a 50 ft. Spaghetti cord?
take it out to the street edge and put it on the asphalt or your concrete patio that is in the sun and let it do all the work..............then coil as you wish.
or come back to find out that somebody took your cable :(
I mean this is great for vr headset cables but not everyone has heat guns
ShinyPeachCraft Check put some of the other comments for some heat gun-free alternative approaches!
@@russroll3258 you can wrap the wire around a cup and tape the ends, then just pour hot water into the cup and it will heat the wire :)
2018: nope
2019: nope
2020: ahh yes
If you’re like me and don’t have a heat gun then a hair dryer might be an option. I haven’t tried it so use that at your own risk
Will a hair dryer work?
HG.ExtremePhaZE Yeah in a pinch! The heat gun works better though.
here because google showed this video when i was searching how to uncoil my vr cable
yoo same
if not a heat gun a blow dryer would work as well
hair dryer?
My god that could have been explained in 30 seconds!!!
Anybody worried about applying heat to a sealed paint can, empty or not? NoNo
Better be sure it's not flammable paint! Latex should be fine.
Yes, I totally have a heat gun XD.
A hairdryer will work in a pinch. Or leave the cable wrapped around the can in a closed car on a sunny day! You really just need to heat it up without melting or burning it.
@@russroll3258 So there is no specific heat point I need to hit, I just need to make it warm enough, without actually melting it. Ohhh.
fuck, what if i dont have a heat gun?
my stupid headphone cable started curling on itself
Just put in in the sun?
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Yeah... just wait a day and it will uncoil itself. Dont use heat gun....
*kink* 😏
Ima31banana Heh heh heh
I dip them in boiling water
John McDermott That’s one way to do it!
ohhhhhh. hope you dry them for weeks before using.
this worked just by wrapping it around the paint can
0:29 was that a jojo reference
if you don't have gun use hair dryer
You don't need a cylynder to coil cables.
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Somebody Toucha Yer Spaghet?