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Clearance at Bunnings Menton arlec 20 m lead and holder on back wall about 30 of them not sure which code 0372616 or 2400223 saw when I went to get rcd leads
[VIC] Arlec 20m Extension Lead and Holder $5 @ Bunnings, Mentone
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garage sale on 26/02/2023 - 10:51 files.ozbargain.com.au (5022 clicks)
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daisy chain them, for charging your EV on the street. +1
Was. Going to use as clothes line but electrical lead stretches under weight ..
Yep, a great way for using an EV to cross the outback, drive from Sydney to Perth, or anywhere over a few hundred km really where there's no charging stations (and never will be). Once you've laid the initial route, others might add a powerboard every km or so and we can all finally make the switch, eat the bugs, own nothing, and be happy.
Yeah, nah mate. When petrol cars were first doing trips they had to drop petrol off by dray at various points.
The point with electric cars is the battery technology will, eventually, allow you to do it without stopping. However, most places have electricity delivered to the towns. There will be places that will put in charging outlets because people will stop at the roadhouses and have a meal whilst they are charging the car.
I was only having a laugh. But sadly battery tech will never reach that kind of ability. It will only be minute, shrinking percentage improvements from here. In spite of decades of research, new construction methods and materials, chemical compositions, there has been no amazing improvement in capacity that can achieve the several-times storage multiplication required. At least not any that 98% of people can afford, or afford to maintain in our lifetime. The weight is about as low as it's ever going to be. They're already a thin plastic case or heatshrink that have to be handled with kid gloves to prevent split and leakage, a lightweight diletric, thin plates or just foil, and chemical electrolyte. Unless the periodic table is missing a dozen elements, batteries only have a few % more room for improvement at most.
In CA half the charging stations are broken, and the few that do work, people pull their car into a bay, unplug another persons car, plug their own in for 10 minutes instead, then don't return the cable into the first car charge socket. The first person comes back an hour later wanting to drive on to their appointment the next town over, but their batteries are still depleted.
Meanwhile, a T model Ford or 1960s Victa lawnmower runs on the same fuel type still available today and about to be repaired by most mechanics (or even most people at home in their shed even if they make dumb mistakes, slowly learning through trial and error). But repairing anything other than the earliest of EVs will become impossible as proprietary electronic parts, security unlock codes, etc will be priced out of reach, withheld, or banned - just as they want to do with ICE cars.
Anyway that's another story.
The only way to achieve it is another type of ENGINE, only partly by lowering it and vehicle weight, but still running some type of combustible fuel available from the petrol stations that already exist. That will never happen with EVs. The amount of cabling, battery storage (at the garage itself, not the cars), ongoing maintenance, safety certification checks, and other infrastructure, plus the exponential increase in power stations to provide the electricity or factories building solar panels (which no-one is going to build, because first there will be heaps of demand, then it will taper off), PLUS the already escalating cost of electricity we're seeing (when did electricity ever go DOWN in price)… Well, they really are just dreaming. Electricity is going to cost more to recharge a car than petrol does.
Unless they're going to install small nuclear reactors in cars it's not going to happen.
If the entire world were London where many "houses" have at least one common wall, ok. But a place like Australia? Nope. Heck they can't even manage it in America, in EV mecca, ordering people to stop charging their cars because as their laws require they continue transitioning more every day to "Claytons" renewables (renewables that aren't really renewables), the reliability of those "green" alternatives creates instability to a point where the grid falls over when too many people turn on their air conditioner at the same time the Kardashians are airing.
Unless they're going to install small nuclear reactors in cars it's not going to happen.
EVs, charging stations, etc only APPEAR like a good alternative at the start when most people don't think about it deeply, while there's still plenty of more reliable power coming from power stations. But as more people come on board, more power stations closed, the "green" infrastructure cannot cope and the system groans to a halt. It's like when anything becomes popular… More people buy, it sells out, they can't make more fast enough, so the price goes up, the old system degrades without maintenance because it's ban date is approaching, and because less people can afford it there's no taxes generated from sales to build the seven times or more "green" ones - which also require the old ones to build!?
We can see this coming in the actions of the same people forcing new laws, cutoff dates, etc for ICE cars. They are now beginning to demand (and win) other changes that will make EVs not only impractical, but impossible TOO!
e.g. Residents of two towns in the UK are currently marching the streets in protest. Their local councils are planning to "allow" residents 100 car trips in/out of their suburb per year. Drive past the camera more than 100 times and you get fined. (It's effectively 50 trips really, because if you leave home, you have to return home too.)
People not working from home who work 5 days a week will run out of trip quota and start accruing fines after just 2.5 months (and that assumes they never leave town for any other purpose like shopping, university, concerts, sporting events, kids school, holidays…). The arrogance of government is astounding in fining only the people in two towns as a "trial" for the rest of the country.
Their solution? You can drive 4x further out and around the cameras, "spewing more carbon" into the atmosphere. So is their agenda REALLY about "the environment" and reducing dreaded carbon? Of course not.
This demonstrates the goal has never been JUST about replacing ICE cars. That's only the plausible excuse Poindexter over in marketing came up with… the few degrees of heat turned up on the frogs, to get where they really want to be eventually… monitoring, regulating, and ultimately controlling the movement of every person on the planet (while impoverishing us at the same time).
i.e. Today it will be new ICE cars banned from being made, and older ones fined. A few years later and it will be EVs getting reduced trips to "Encourage the use of public transport." Next few degrees on the frog burner will be "Now you MUST use public transport." Until finally EVs too are banned. We won't be permitted to own any kind of private car, or they will at least make owning one so impractical there's no point. Will force us to use ONLY public transport, based on more fudged figures and fairy stories to "save the planet" (like all those current "climate-change-indicting high temperatures" they deliberately take on hot airport tarmacs in heat waves) and when we need to travel another 100km from the train station, there will only be a couple of government-approved cab companies we're forced to use.
They tell us themselves it's coming and the only way to prevent it is to refuse to buy EVs.
If no-one buys them, no-one sells them, so no-one makes them. As governments keep making laws they make more, factories will lay off staff, then either go out of business or demand subsidies that will send nations into debt with the World Bank (which the WEF already has wet dreams over). Or else the manufacturers and us will demand government wake from their green induced stupor and return to governing instead of dictating.
@[Deactivated]: Just give your horse a sugar cube from me and the rest of us will take it from here.
@try2bhelpful: Hm… thanks for the idea:
"Horse riders can ride on any road, unless a sign says they must not. They can ride 2 abreast (side by side) as long as they're within 1.5m of each other. More than 2 horse riders can ride side by side, but only if 1 is overtaking the others or they are droving stock."
@try2bhelpful: When I saw that quote I couldn't imagine anyone being brave enough to ride horses side by side like it says. I mean bicycles have to ride single file right… so imagine how little room is left with two large horses next to each other.
@[Deactivated]: They get pretty close in horse races. However, I think the commentator just did a replace of “bicycle” with “horse”.
Was more, couldn't clear at $10 so dropped to $5 not sure what clearance price is at other stores …
That was a good deal for $10
Item number is 0372616. Showing on PowerPass. Different stores have different markdowns. Retail is $20.!
$19 at my local
I was there this afternoon and the section under that $5.00 pricetag was empty. Hopefully they dig up some more in the next few days.
It's on PowerPass, but not on Nrby or the main bunnings site.
Here's a link to just the holder: https://www.bunnings.com.au/arlec-extension-lead-organiser_p…
I remember looking at this holder, but it seems fairly flimsy…don't think it would be too durable.
Still a good deal though I reckon.
Please add specific store to title as it's not Bunnings wide.