showing you how to turn any cable into a spiral cable for this tutorial you will
need a heat gun or a really hot hairdryer some clamps or soft clamps a
pencil and the cable you want to use we begin by clamping the cable to the
pencil where you want the spiral to start and then just slowly turn by turn
just like making a spring we start to rotate it make sure it's got a tight fit
and then just keep going
make sure it's tight and taut
and this technique pretty much works with any cable especially if it's round
like this alright so now I'm going to clamp the other side
now taking your heat gun we're gonna hit it for a minute or two here until we
know it's softened up
you will be able to smell it also if you touch it you can see how hot it is I
mean obviously you don't want to do it too long
you know it all depends on the heat gun and if you're using a hairdryer you're
obviously gonna have to do it a little longer
and if you do it too long you don't want these points actually melting the word
you have to pull it apart so now you can either let it sit for an hour or put it
in the freezer for a couple minutes and I'll be right back in a couple minutes
so I just pulled it out of the freezer it's been about three to five minutes
it feels pretty cold obviously the middle is a lot colder than the plastic
so let's see how we did now I may be a little embarrassed because if this
doesn't turn out okay but that just means that I needed to heat it up heat
it up more or cool it more so it looks like it's doing okay
so now you have a spiral cable so a couple things I'm noticing just by this
this test run with it the last time I did it I manually held
one end and then taped the other end and I don't know if you can see but it looks
like the claims were a little too rough on it so you may want to put a paper
towel in between clamping it or use a softer clamp when it's not doesn't have
so much pressure on it also I can tell at the ends it seems a little loopy so I
mean we could just straighten those back out if necessary but I would recommend
making sure you heat that up as well and that just the center like I was but for
the most part it does what it needs to it's now a spiral bouncy cable so if
you're pulling on your device it'll have some give rather than just rip it out
now the downside of you to this is it does significantly decrease the length
of the cable however you're not spending an extra ten to fifteen dollars to have
a spiral cable you can just turn a pre-existing one into a spiral cable and
as I said this works on pretty much any device or pretty much any cable that has