quercus

Why don't you trade in the HT 75 for an extendable KM 130?
This last one can be taken apart very easily and I've been using it for years. Can even fit an extension hedge trimmer on it. The talk about the fittings being bad is BS. But hey, you can break everything when you want to.

The silky's in my van are the buggers really... They are close to 2.5 meters in retracted position. If my van didn't have the extra half meter of space under the seats, they wouldn't fit in.

and eh... Treevet... If your rope has "memory", try washing it. That'll do the trick. None of my ropes have memory, but when they get real dirty they do tend to get stiff and that's what you call "memory". When you bend them when they are wet, the bend usually dries in and stays in the line when it is dry and that's a problem sometimes. Not so bad on a static line, but on a semi-static or a dynamic line that means that every time the rope is stretched, the fibers on the inside get sanded. I'm saying is that the fibers wear out from stretching with sandgrains between them and that's real bad. The strings within can break one by one if you don't check up on it and there's really no way of seeing something like that. That's why you need to feel with your thumb for parts that are narrower then normal. If you encounter such a part, cut it out and use the line in the new dimensions. Really need to wash it sometimes and when it's real supple, they usually last longer.
And eh... the way the lines are lying around in your garage, I reckon they must have a "memory" of over a 1.000.000 gigabytes....