The essence of the issue is that the standard cable is very inconvenient because it is long. When you drive, the cable constantly gets tangled under your hands and gets twisted around the gearshift knob. A long cable in the car is very inconvenient, so I decided to make a twisted USB lightning cable to charge my iPhone in the car.
You may have already seen how people make twisted cable from ordinary cable, so I decided to show you my torment so that you do not repeat the mistakes that I made at first.
Will need
To turn a straight cable into a twisted one you need a little:
- Standard lightning cable for USB charging.
- Pencil or iron handle for winding the cable.
- Household hair dryer for heating.
In addition, it will not be superfluous to have an assistant to work with the hairdryer, as well as gloves so as not to burn your hands. Of course, you can tie the ends of the cable, but I somehow didn’t think about it, and so I had to hold the cable with gloves while warming up.
Making twisted cable from regular cable
At first I wound the cable around a regular ballpoint pen, and that was my first mistake.It turned out that the plastic of the handle begins to melt under the influence of the temperature of the hair dryer. Having removed the cable from the handle, I saw that it stretched and practically did not become twisted. More precisely, it curled a little, but this was not what I expected from my work. The reason was probably a short warm-up due to the fact that the plastic of the handle began to melt.
For the second attempt, I replaced the plastic handle with a metal Parker, and after ten minutes of heating, I removed the cable to check the warm-up result. The effect was almost the same and again unsatisfactory.
The third time I repeated everything exactly as in the second experiment, but changed the moment of removing the cable from the handle. After warming up for 10 minutes, I let the cable cool completely, and only then removed it from the handle!
The third experiment finally gave a positive result. And although the cable turned out to be not as springy as the one you can buy in a store, I still achieved my goal.
What can be said about this work on converting a straight USB cable into a twisted one? I think that 10 minutes of work to improve comfort is not that much work. There is no need to run around looking for a new cable if you can remake the one you have.
Checking the cable for functionality after all these manipulations showed that it continues to perform its function properly! But now it has become much more convenient!
