Hi Mike,

Another thought is to get some of these plugs both male and femal at the
hardware store that just clamp on the wire without having to strip back the
insulation.  Buy yourself a few feet of zip cord and cut to length and
you're in the manufacturing business.

73's

Bud

e At 08:52 AM 9/20/02, you wrote:
>Walt:
>
>Yup, it's turrible! (grin)  But I don't really care as long as I find such
>cordlets.  Anyone got the reference so I can buy a bazillion of them?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
>
>On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Walt Smith wrote:
>
> > There are such short cords.  I forget if it was on this list or, possibly,
> > Blindtech that somebody was selling them within the past year.  They're
> > exactly for the purpose you mentioned.  Ain't it terrible when someone else
> > steals your million-dollar idea?  <g>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Freeman" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:41 AM
> > Subject: A Capital Idea
> >
> >
> > Good morning!
> >
> > All of us deal with the frustrating problem of trying to plug wall warts
> > into power strips without obscuring at least one adjacent outlet.  In
> > trying to solve this pesky problem, I came up with a fairdinkum solution.
> > How about making extension cords for the wall warts -- but *very* short --
> > like six inches in length, maybe?  The male end of the extension cordlets
> > would be a standard, non-outlet-obscuring plug and the wall wart could
> > plug
> > into the female end and lie on the table any old way.
> >
> > Anyone know if such cordlets are manufactured?  If not, I wonder if
> > there's money to be made here, let alone a good deed to be performed?
> > Beats the heck out of "Make Money Fast" schemes! (grin)
> >
> > 73/88!
> >
> > Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
> >

Bud Schwab
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Malibu, California