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N Cook wrote:
Not that one. For storing or just shelving unused equipment , so the
mains cable was not trailling about and no need for ties of any sort.
All the cable is taken up into the hank/knot leaving just the mains
plug
exposed and all tight up against the back of the chassis.

Ah - know what you mean now. Those old enough to remember rope washing
lines will remember they came like that too.

But plastic cable ties weren't around then. ;-)

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The person who showed me was ex-services WW2 or 1950s sparky.
Yes really tight just like how plastic covered , corded washing lines
arrive
packed, but with the plug and "noose" spiralling taken right up to the
cable
entry point and not even any obvious starting point to undo it, let

alone
being so tight. I remember the final move was really forcing a final

loop
over or something.


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I've sent you some pictures of a wrap in progress. I have sent them to the
same mail address that you post to this group from. If you don't get them,
mail me with a different address.

Arfa



A first time for everything. Worked out how to access the email bit of
gazeta.pl, pointless looking at spam otherwise.
If it was you who uploaded 9M byte of file/s there it/they will be staying
there, no broadband here.