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To: DUMBGRUNT

>>My junk drawer, glovebox, stuck in receptacles...a lifetime supply of cables, adapters, wall warts...
And still not the one I need!<<

Get rid of them all. You will need one of the ones you chucked.

This is EXACTLY what happened to me. I tossed a box literally 6 feet tall X 3 square full of old cables and junk.

The next week I needed a USB-3 cable for an HDD. I also needed a power pack that I was 100% sure I tried on every DC powered device I had.

But OTOH my “office” was starting to look like the opening sequence of the show “Hoarders.”


5 posted on 09/23/2021 7:12:12 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: freedumb2003

—”a power pack that I was 100% sure I tried on every DC powered device I had.”

Pls, do NOT get me started on wall warts.

And they also come in AC and millions of current ratings, polarity, cable end types, diameters...
AND many are parasitic continuously sucking a few watts 24/7. Just like GFCIs!!!


15 posted on 09/23/2021 7:28:12 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: freedumb2003

“Get rid of them all. You will need one of the ones you chucked”

Murphy’s law sort of.

And Murphy was an optimist


29 posted on 09/23/2021 8:11:11 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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