If you have cord on a plastic reel like this ....

[Elines]

then you might want to gently pull on the 'discs' to see if they come off, and if they do then you might want to glue them in place.

If you don't do this then you might find that one of the discs comes off and a whole load of cord spools off the reel and gets very tangled up. And then you might find yourself having to spend a load of time untangling it and winding the cord back on the (glued) spool.

Don't ask me how I know this ............

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Do many people keep their para cord wound on spools ?

 

[decorum]

... Don't ask me how I know this ............

Go on Chris, do tell

Do many people keep their para cord wound on spools ?

If that's how it was purchased then, me for one. I leave it stored on the spool and grab it as and when I need ~ It's certainly easier to leave it on the spool than to loop/hank it each time I take some off the whole.

 

[Toddy]

Do many people keep their para cord wound on spools ?

If I've bought a 100 metre roll, then yep, I certainly do.

Had one spill too thankfully there was only about 20metres left on it though. I just hanked it up like the washing line.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Osprey]

Yes' I've had this happen too ! unhappily it was a new spool so I had to rewind 100m

 

[Elines]

duplicate post

 

[Elines]

Go on Chris, do tell

Well ...it was like this ....

I was in the garden trying out different tarp set ups, and I needed a new guy line so I picked up the reel off the *!£%^&* floor, the

^&*%%$££! end dropped off and the *&^%^$£" cord came off the *&(*&^%$£"! end and became *&$%^&$£"*well unravelled.

So I had to spend the best part of a ^&%$£(**! hour sorting it all out

Hope that's clear!

 

[Miyagi]

Hahahahahaa brilliant.

Luckily mine was supplied on a cardboard reel, once I've removed some for use I hank it, otherwise the unused cord stays on the reel.

Liam

 

[Kepis]

I had a brand new spool of pull start cord run off the end of a reel, then i made it worse by picking it up by the other end plate, which also came off resulting in a huge mess of cord on the floor, took me about two hours to unravel it all

 

[Elines]

I had a brand new spool of pull start cord run off the end of a reel, then i made it worse by picking it up by the other end plate, which also came off resulting in a huge mess of cord on the floor, took me about two hours to unravel it all

(and others)

At least it wasn't just me (it usually is!)

 

[Mesquite]

(and others)

At least it wasn't just me (it usually is!)

LOL... I've been there and done it as well Chris.

Only in my case a young puppy helped to make a nearly new reel really tangled I ended up having to cut it in to sections to remove the chewed bits

 

[John Fenna]

I got 200m of cord from our local surplus store at cost as the reels had done this in transit.
It took only a little time to wind the cord onto new spools and I had a bargain!

 

[Elines]

............... in my case a young puppy helped to make a nearly new reel really tangled I ended up having to cut it in to sections to remove the chewed bits

Certainly tops mine Steve!

 

[hiho]

Well ...it was like this ....

I was in the garden trying out different tarp set ups, and I needed a new guy line so I picked up the reel off the *!£%^&* floor, the

^&*%%$££! end dropped off and the *&^%^$£" cord came off the *&(*&^%$£"! end and became *&$%^&$£"*well unravelled.

So I had to spend the best part of a ^&%$£(**! hour sorting it all out

Hope that's clear!

Still annoyed then

been there done that and still not glued it inplace....

 

[Teepee]

Who needs spools anyway?

2 miles of Amsteel.

 

[drewdunnrespect]

teepee by any chance due have a fetish for the stuff cos why does one man need 2 MILE of the stuff

 

[decorum]

Well ...it was like this ....

I was in the garden trying out different tarp set ups, and I needed a new guy line so I picked up the reel off the *!£%^&* floor, the

^&*%%$££! end dropped off and the *&^%^$£" cord came off the *&(*&^%$£"! end and became *&$%^&$£"*well unravelled.

So I had to spend the best part of a ^&%$£(**! hour sorting it all out

Hope that's clear!

Don't hold back Chris, tell us how you reel-y feel o)


I did a similar thing with a toilet roll. I'd have been happy for it to have fallen on the floor

. And I'd have definitley been happier if it hadn't been the last one in the house

.

Still annoyed then

I reckon you're right, definitely more than mildly miffed .

2 miles of Amsteel.

:yikes:

 

[Elines]

Don't hold back Chris, tell us how you reel-y feel o) :yikes:

I reel-y will have to tell you the yoga joke, just so that you are on the receiving end for once

 

[Shewie]

Cousin It's on a merry go round

 

[Hugo]

Oh bugger, I read the first post I checked my latest purchase of 100 mt OK I thought go to use it today and the bl***y end falls off along with plenty of the cord in a mess. Worse still it was not what I thought I was paying for, it had a single inner fibre, probably going to stretch.