11 Apr
2009
11 Apr
'09
9:28 a.m.
--- On Sat, 4/11/09, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas on how to rehab cables that
have
gone stiff? Case in point, most of my old Apple cables are
semi-permenantly set into odd curly shapes.
I'd put them somewhere warm, preferably uncurled. Try hanging them by one connector
from a tall shelf so that they can hang straight, and warming them a bit with a hair
dryer. Or hang them in a sunny window. I've had a similar problem with cables on older
game controllers. I've had some luck just hanging them by their connectors and let
gravity make them "relax". but in this case, the cables weren't stiff, they
were just curly from being coiled up tight for so long.
-Ian