Quote Originally Posted by eesakiwi View Post
I think that people cut the cords for the same reason electronics repairers do, they don't want the hassles of someone picking it up, plugging it in, & doing some damage, like burn themselves or something else...

Then it all comming back onto them.


Repairers here have to cut the cords off stuff they are chucking out, before they even leave the shop.



The weight of the copper in the cords is almost nothing, the plugs weigh 8 grams of brass & the best use I have found for a old cable was as a replacement cord for a angle grinder.

Actually I found a light stand with the switch on the cord. So I took the cord off a grinder I had, that had a broken switch in it & put the lightstand cord on it.
Now I have a grinder with a switch again, just on the cord this time.
cutting cords in my opinion is ok if you dont have the means to dispose of say a sweeper the most i take on sweepers/shop vacs is the cords cause the motor is hard to get to and its easier to just sit and strip the cord at a table and it all adds up if you get lots of cords.

i would however never cut a cord on a a/c and leave that i would carry it back before i left something like that behind lol. my rule is if you can cart it or carry it and it has lots of copper and its easy to get rid of the stuff you dont want then haul it away instead of just cord cutting and leaving it for someone else=) except tv's now those i would cut cause the picture tube is a pain to get rid of=(