"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

stuff snipped

I took it home and found that it was cut about 8' from the receptacle end.
I cut the section off, put a plug on the end of the 8' section and a
receptacle on the end of the 17' section and had 2 heavy duty expansion
cords. The 8' section is something I use all the time and right now it's
hooked up to a oil-filled space heater used to keep the garage a little
warmer for the dogs.

It's great to be handy. (-: God only knows the amount of stuff that gets
tossed because there's some trivial problem that could be easily fixed by
someone with a little skill.

You can't imagine the number of computers that people I know were ready to
scrap because a cooling fan started to screech. The interesting thing about
PCs is that most non-technical people are dreadfully afraid of breaking
something and when a drive or a fan begins to whine, they lose confidence in
the computer completely and immediate want a new one.

I have a 100' cord for the snowblower that's got loads of splices in it from
that pesky cord hiding in a snowdrift. Finally ordered so heavy-duty
marine-grade adhesive-filled heat shrink tubing and the old soldering iron
and fixed it "good as new" - well almost. I used to use electrical tape
(too brittle in the cold) and then self-fusing rubber tape (which eventually
got leaky) but the heat shrink with goo inside has been remarkably resilient
and has stayed quite waterproof.

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Bobby G.