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   Breizh (breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 17:58:38 JST Breizh

   • s0: :soldering_iron:

   @s0 But if it's coiled properly (without creating the loops with this gesture, but spinning it as if with a winder (or better, with a winder literally)), there's no twist at all, is there?

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 17:58:36 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     @breizh

     I thought that too.

     Now picture a one-meter cable with exactly one coil. Pick each end of the coil in one hand and pull them apart. The cable end will then be twisted by exactly one turn, unless/until you rotate one end between your fingers to compensate.

     This twisting is prevented in over/under by *never* compensating, so that it gets twisted clockwise for one coil then counterclockwise for the next, which cancels out on uncoiling.

     @s0

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 21:12:44 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Albert ARIBAUD ✎
     • s0: :soldering_iron:
     @breizh @s0 @aaribaud I do one rather similar to the over-under method but with twisting between my index and thumb everytime, easily became a habit and when the cable isn't kinked you'll feel it coiling itself.
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     Breizh (breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 21:12:46 JST Breizh

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     • Albert ARIBAUD ✎
     • s0: :soldering_iron:

     @aaribaud @s0 Oh, yeah, if you pull them apart in the perpendicular direction of the coil, you twist it.

     But if you also uncoil it with a winder (or like a winder), it’s ok.