Zack Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Anyone have any good tricks for fixing this issue......gah this sucks lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiomprd Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 untwist it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack Posted February 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 untwist it Been trying and it keeps getting worse.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 What Mike said. Work with it, not against it, and work your way down the remainder untwisting it. How much and how far you need to go varies with the twist, but I've untwisted many such kinks. The technique is something you'll get a feel for after you've done it a time or two. Nothing to be unusually upset about -- just a part of maintaining cables. John B., CAS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audio Daddyo Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Hey Zack, Just take hold of the straight end of the cable and twist in the same direction of the coil until it works it's way out. By the way I really love your logo. Very cool! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack Posted February 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Hey Zack, Just take hold of the straight end of the cable and twist in the same direction of the coil until it works it's way out. By the way I really love your logo. Very cool! Andy Thank you sir... ill give it another shot when I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Trew Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 I don't think that problem can be untwisted... What you are probably experiencing is that the internal conductors have twisted inside jacket, causing the permanent backwards loop that you are seeing. Sometimes you can give the cable an extra twist from the problem area to the end, but this makes that part of the cable a tighter coil, which is not desirable. I'm afraid your cable issue is usually a permanent condition. Not to pick on a particular company, but from the evidence I've seen over several years, the super soft and flexible coiled cable used in Loon poles (which I believe is the one shown in the pic above) is much more prone to develop these twists than the more sturdy coiled cables found in in other poles. As the users of Sony phones (which includes most of us) have probably discovered, this happens in a very ugly way with the Sony MDR-7506 headphone cable, especially since they switched to the super-soft cable a few years ago. Glen Trew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 the super soft and flexible coiled cable used in Loon poles (which I believe is the one shown in the pic above) You are correct sir, and yes I did end up getting a tighter coil once it got corrected. It's still working so far when collapsing fully though. I'll be giving it a good test all this next week to see if it becomes a bigger problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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