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Old 2nd Jun 2019, 8:32 pm   #14
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Default Re: Hudson handset

The 'official' curly-coil handset cables made by the likes of A.P.Besson/S.G.Brown had a spiral Nylon spring-core around which the individual 'tinsel' wires were grouped before being encapsulated in the outer rubber/PVC jacket. the problem with these sometimes getting 'reverse' twisted over part of their length and thereafter taking a 'set' so always wanting to reverse-twist even if you repeatedly corrected this - was never really solved - and the issue persists on telephone handsets to this day!

[In times-past, if someone complained that the curly-coil on their expensive Cisco VoIP-phone's handset was reverse-twisting, I used to dismiss it as 'being caused by high levels of local Entropy']
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