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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • ‘Reduced’ implies manufacturing changes. What if, once the product is reduced, it still can’t be reused/recycled?

    What if the intended life of a product is 50 years maintenance-free after which it’s landfill? Can’t be reused, can’t be refurbed, can’t be recycled - but it’s still generally a good use of resources.

    In many products, there’s a repair-reliability tradeoff. If you pot it, you can’t repair failures, but you’ll reduce the failure rate by >90%. Repair shops hate it because the ones they see can’t be fixed, but they’ don’t see all the ‘easy repairs’ that never needed doing in the first place.






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    Thin stamped construction is cheap, but can still be fitted with sleeving on the live (active and neutral) pins like UK & europlug, but not US plugs. This prevents objects or fingers getting to live pins on a partially inserted plug.

    Industry has agreed that leads exit either straight out, or down-and-right, so there is no conflict for horizontal or vertical sockets. Sockets are universally installed earth-down.

    Reasonably compact.