When, every day, winding the cable onto your elbow, and then unraveling it, you have to urgently make a device like this.
My version of a home-made garden and yard extension cord from what was at hand at that time.
And here was this:
A piece of chipboard, a piece of PVC pipe D-40 mm, a piece of laminate, a PVC panel, a threaded rod or a large screw, a small cylindrical handle from the old bedside table and the most important part is the empty coil from the welding wire.
Instruments:
Electric drill, drills, drill-core bit type-setting, saw, clamp, screwdriver, knife, key, electric. cable ~ 30 m, plug, socket.
Manufacture:
We saw off the chipboard with a size of 300 * 300 mm, drill a hole in the center for screwing the stud (screw), depending on what you found.
We take a PVC pipe and cut off from it a piece equal to the width of the coil + 10 mm, a reserve for the washer, this will be the sleeve on which the coil with the wire rotates.
Now we select the core drill, we need three different sizes, one No. 1 equal to or slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the pipe, the second No. 2 equal to the outer diameter and the third No. 3 larger than the second by 10 mm or more.
Using the first drill, we make several centering washers for the pipe from a piece of chipboard or laminate, put them on a stud and then put on a pipe sleeve.
With a drill No. 3, we drill a PVC panel (laminate), the resulting circle is drilled with a drill No. 2, we get a ring, it should be worn on the pipe, then we put on the coil.
It is convenient to drill on a wooden lining with a clamp, then the likelihood of PVC breakage is reduced.
Drill No. 3 make the last finishing washer, put it on a hairpin and tighten the nut with a lock nut or glue, do not tighten, the coil should rotate easily but not hang.
Install the handle for winding the wire.
For the wire, we make a hole in the coil, slightly larger than the diameter of our wire. We insert the wire from the inside and attach the plug, on the other hand, one or more outlets.
Everything, you can check by winding the cable to the reel, it fits about 30 m.wires for lawn mowers. Everything itself is quickly unwound when stretched and easily wound by hand on the handle.
Do not forgetthat use extension cord when wound Forbidden and a little Harmful!