On Monday, 2 September 2013 04:09:33 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 01/09/2013 19:23, Lobster wrote:

...ie, one of those pass-through wind-up reels that you can readily

obtain for mains cable extensions, TV coax, phone cables - in fact

pretty much any form of cable except CAT5E as far as I can see!



Does anyone know of one? I currently have an intermittently used 10m

patch cable which is quite useful for various jobs, and it would be

convenient just to be able to quickly wind it up. Why can't I find

one, even from a pikey Hong Kong ebay seller? Is the cable structure

just not up to it?



RS had one...

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/cat5-c...blies/0252891/

Yep - just what I'm after!

It does seem I'm not missing the obvious, anyway - I wonder why they are so hard to come by, compared with other types of cable reel? Must be the all-pervading prevalence of wifi these days I suppose...

Failing that, get a reel from CPC, slap a long patch lead on it, and use
a female/female coupler at one end if you need a socket.

I suppose so... however all empty reels that I could see during my searches seemed to be big buggers intended for mains flex; not really appropriate for what I'm after. I'll stick with what I have, I guess

Thanks anyway!
David