How to Wrap a Long Cord Around the Top Hook

[kirbyclassiciii]

For all those of you with a commercial-duty metal upright, here is a video I saw that helps you how best to manage such a long cord...

My dad taught me how, but now I want to do this myself. Here is my 1987 Royal 662 with its cord lasso'ed up.



~Ben

 

[gottahaveahoove]

great demo

"inconsistency", but, hey.
Thanks for that input.

 

[human]

Not my style...

Yeah, and once you break off the top cord hook, you can just lay the cord across the top of the bag and stretch out that little spring, that connects the bag to the handle. That's apparently what happened to the Sanitaire I bought at Goodwill last year. Also, The cord was totally trashed and had to be replaced.

In all fairness, I can see why someone would want to do that in a commercial setting as it would be a bit of a time saver. Be that as it may, I always prefer to wrap my cords on both hooks to keep everything neat and I don't have any problems with kinking.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I use both hooks as well..................

unless I'll be using the cleaner again very soon. There's usually always one (or two ) at the ready.

 

[detroitdirtbag]

What’s the wrap for a shop vac ?

 

[jo]

Cord wrapping

I like the newer versions of cord cleats where one (usually the upper) can twist and then you can slide the whole cord off the cleat, drop it slightly and unhook from the bottom cleat. That’s really the best arrangement.

But the same style of twisting the cord with your thumb and fingers while looping is used to neatly wrap up a garden hose! I was always envious of my next door neighbor growing up, his hose was always beautifully coiled by the hose spigot by his front door. Ours was always a mess so I began practicing getting ours neat one day and figured out this twisting action has to occur. Also this system works best if the cord or garden hose is laying straight out fully extended so it can spin around.

Jon

 

[eurekaprince]

Hi Jon,

I think that an even better arrangement is having the lower cord hook swivel. That way, the upper cord hook is always in the secure closed position for hanging the cord when needed.

 

[jo]

Better yet

Is when both swivel. Maximum flexibility for different people’s ways of doing things.

Of course I really like the retractable cord reels the best. I’ve even seen several uprights with them now.

I often use an old vacuum cleaner power cord cut off a dead vacuum that I put a female end on the machine end and have myself a decent length extension cord for my vacuum of the correct gauge without being once of those heavy duty larger “orange” cords. Makes vacuuming my house less tedious because my house has long rooms and hallways which would require replugging mid stream to complete them and also vacuum adjacent bedrooms by plugging in in the central hallway. I am very careful to wrap the cord in the circular motion with this twisting action and I can plug it’s ends in to each other for storage.

When I had a house built I paid extra to have some outlets placed in certain areas. The builder though I was weird asking for outlets in those areas and asked me why there? I told him I want some central places where furniture will not block the outlets to plug in the vacuum cleaner. He said he had never heard of that idea before but that it seemed logical. I always hated having to get behind some piece of furniture to plug the vacuum in.

Of course now I’m no longer in that house and in an older home built in the early 50s. Code didn’t require as many outlets back then so I run into the issue of so few outlets uncovered by furniture or unused. I did remodel and Open a wall which had an outlet in the center of it. The electrician wanted to remove and delete the outlet and I told him no…let’s just put it right beside the new wide doorway this way it won’t ever be covered by furniture so I can plug my vacuum in to it and sure enough it’s very convenient right there next to the entry door of the room.