This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables!

Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time.
That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade!
If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed.
This can hugely increase the lifetime of your electrical cables, to upwards of 20 years of heavy use, without kinks or twists.
(GIF credit hosatech.com)

@s0 I once worked on a production and got chewed out by the gaffer for over-undering the power cables to his lights. I’m still confused about that to this day.
@themgineer huh. There’s a few funky myths about coils of cable when they’re under power, which might have been related. But sounds like a run-of-the-mill contrarian control-freak.
@s0 yeah, this was during wrap while packing up his kit. It was otherwise a decent production 🤷🏽