You don’t usually think of car batteries as expendables, but it looks like that is changing. An interesting article in this weeks Wall Street Journal talks about how the demands of today’s electronic-laden cars are taking a real toll on…
Category: extension cords
Time To Change That Smoke Detector Battery
Daylight savings time starts this weekend. The clock is being set forward three weeks earlier this year and some confusion is probably in order. One thing you don’t want to be confused about is the need to change your smoke…
Just How Many Mic Cables Do You Need To Get To The Moon?
I often joke that I have coiled enough cable to get to the moon and back. Turns out that I was exaggerating just a little. It appears that it would take about 30 million 50 foot mic cables just to…
End of the holidays
Well, New Year’s Day has come and gone, so its time to pack away the decorations for another year. Its always really tempting to just stuff them in plastic bags and pitch them into the garage, but I’ve come to…
Making Your Own Multioutlet Cable
Let’s see if we can get back to the problem I was discussing in my Aug. 3 postings.I was lamenting not being able to meet a customers need for a better multioutlet cable because of the need to order in…
Copper Prices Impact Extension Cords
My thoughts regarding solving the lead time for modifying an imported product (Electratrac Multioutle Cables) were quickly sidetracked by a much more pressing problem related to extension cord manufacturing. That problem is the volatility in copper prices.We received notification that…
Solving A Customer’s Problem
I got an interesting call today from a new customer and it started me on problem solving quest that I can’t finish. Maybe someone who drops by here can help. This customer had ordered some of our Electratrac multi-outlet extension…
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