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Thin extention cable for indoor to outdoor use!?

Its that time of the year again and I’m wondering if there is a better solution out there for my outside xmas decorations. I do not have power outside the house so in previous years I’ve resorted to unscrewing the air vent in the brickwork and feeding a standard garden extention cable through it and clamping the airvent covers back on over the top.

No one makes a detachable-plug cable. The detachable plug part would have a plug on each end, which wouldn’t do a darned thing to help you out.

Since you’re clearly a serious “Let’s Make It Work Every Year” kind of decorator, I suggest this:

Slice off one end of the bottom flange of the air-vent cover so it creates a hole big enough to feed your plug through. Re-attach the detached piece via a tiny screw to the cover, but not too tight, so that you can rotate it back into position or away for cable-feeding. Then just rotate it away while the cable is in place, and rotate it back in January.

You’re going to lose about a quarter inch of the flange, but your local machine shop should have a scrap bin where you can find a piece that’s just the right size if you prefer!

Your only other option is to implant an 8″ extension cord permanently into the air vent itself, or the wall. This is super easy to do. If you do this, you can just bend the flange up, push the cord through and bend it back. Check out these guys: http://elecordset.com/products/coiledpowercord-generatorpowercable.aspx

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