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I have been looking at these "contraptions" on Ebay. They are reels to roll up and store, then unroll your welder leads. Shows to be "hardwired" to the welder. That means that internally there is some kind of "rolling contact" that allows this setup to work. Anyone have one of these? Ever tear one apart? Dont want to buy one, and it go to crap in a year and a half, then be left with junk. There are several compaines building/selling these. Any ideas??? Thoughts???
 
I used to coil my leads into plastic milk crates, leaving the male ends sticking out the bottom edge enough to plug into the power source. You can drag out as much as needed. I used one for the two 50' extensions coiled as a pair and another for the 40' stinger with the short 20' ground coiled on top. The only one that had to come all the way out of the crate was the ground.
 
I don't like my cables hung and coiled. I'd much rather have them laid loose on the ground.

I do have some coiled on one machine but they are coiled as a pair effectively neutralizing out each other's magnetic flux.

Maybe it's just an old wives tale, but that many amps through a big coil or two will induce some serious magnetic inductions.

And there are times I already have enough issue with arc blow, to not want any other external forces kicking my bottom.
 
Talking about magnetic flux between welding cables! Have you ever seen jumper cables repell one another when you have 500-1,000 amps going thru them? People will see what you are talking about here!
 
Check out forums at aws.org and search reels been lots of discussion on different brands on there those that make their living welding.
 
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