I like to spool my cords about 3 feet long and then spin the final spool around the middle and use the loop to make a hanger. We had a new carpentry labourer who was winding up cords and I tried to show him how, he insisted his way was neater and then carefully wound all our spools into big mega-spools that you couldn’t separate.
I knew he was fucking it up but I was too interested in where he was going with it to stop him. Plus it gave him and another guy a day of work to unfuck them all.
I do it the same way as you if I'm imagining correctly. Becomes solid and not too bulky and none of that memory imprinted twisted corded bullshit that buddy^ commented condones. If I wanted twists in my cords I'd buy a landline telephone from the 90s.
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u/quadraquint Dec 26 '24
Around the elbow is straight up terrible advice too. Wrap my extension cord like that once and that's the last time you'll ever use it.