"dave" wrote in message
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Why are electric power tools fitted with the amuzingly named "flex". Flex
my
****. It's so stiff I could make coat-hangers from it. I guess there is
some
safety reason - somewhere. (Prescot doesn't have shares in it does he
:-) )

(Ok I'll call it cable if you like)

Good, flexible cable is expensive, power tools are usually a very cutthroat
market, hence they save on anything they can, I always try to get 'self
coiling' stuff, especially for drills and grinders, usually I have to find
and fit it, and remember to get a decent length cable, some new machine
cables are ludicrously short, although things I have bought recently have
been ok for length of cable, but as you say, the cable is very stiff.

mrcheerful;