Abstract: An electrical cable storage device, such as a cable reel, including a cable receptacle and a length of flexible electrical cable, the cable receptacle includes a core portion around which the length of flexible electrical cable can be wound into a plurality of stacked cable layers, the electrical cable includes an outer insulated layer which surrounds one or more electrical conductors and spacing means, the spacing means are adapted to co-operatively form air space between adjacent layers of the length of flexible electrical cable when the flexible cable is being wound on the core portion, the air space being adapted to alleviate the building up of adverse heat on the wound flexible cable due to current flowing through the flexible cable.