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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.