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Are reel snakes all they are cracked up to be?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Timmerman" data-source="post: 148730" data-attributes="member: 172"><p>Re: Are reel snakes all they are cracked up to be?</p><p></p><p>In my experience, it depends on the snake and the reel.</p><p></p><p>I like reels for long, small diameter cables (digital snakes, drive snakes), where the reel is small enough to be managable, and the cable coil is too big to comfortably fit in your hand while coiling. OTOH, reels for large diameter multicore are heavy, and either big enough to be unwieldy or small enough in diameter to not be great for the snake. A typical 16x4 snake is right in the middle of those 2 options.</p><p></p><p>If you do get a reel, you want the stagebox permanently attached to the reel (so it doesn't flop around), and you want an adjustable brake on the reel (locked for transport, and with a friction setting for unreeling).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rob Timmerman, post: 148730, member: 172"] Re: Are reel snakes all they are cracked up to be? In my experience, it depends on the snake and the reel. I like reels for long, small diameter cables (digital snakes, drive snakes), where the reel is small enough to be managable, and the cable coil is too big to comfortably fit in your hand while coiling. OTOH, reels for large diameter multicore are heavy, and either big enough to be unwieldy or small enough in diameter to not be great for the snake. A typical 16x4 snake is right in the middle of those 2 options. If you do get a reel, you want the stagebox permanently attached to the reel (so it doesn't flop around), and you want an adjustable brake on the reel (locked for transport, and with a friction setting for unreeling). [/QUOTE]
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