Brett A. Thomas responds:

Robert Galloway wrote:
I have 220 volt extension cords all over the shop. Somebody more
attuned to the regs may tell you I'm crazy, I don't know. I just buy
the heavyest cable I can find, #12 extension cord or #10 stranded cable
with a heavy jacket off the spool. Put a plug on one end and an outlet
to match your tool on the other. Run the tool where you want to, not
close to where the outlet is.

Hey, Bob, you see that great article in Tools & Shops this month about
shop fires?

And why would 240 volt extension cords be any more likely to create shop fires
than would, say, 120 volt extension cords?

Charlie Self
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity
has made them good." H. L. Mencken