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It probably wouldn’t hurt to start overmolding the hot and neutral prongs with plastic for the first quarter inch, but otherwise I’m much more concerned with how fucky extension cords are with their AWG; if you’ve got something heavy, like my 12 amp thickness planer, “can this extension cord handle this load continuously” is a reasonable question that not a lot of them are willing to answer in an accessible way.
It probably wouldn’t hurt to start overmolding the hot and neutral prongs with plastic for the first quarter inch, but otherwise I’m much more concerned with how fucky extension cords are with their AWG; if you’ve got something heavy, like my 12 amp thickness planer, “can this extension cord handle this load continuously” is a reasonable question that not a lot of them are willing to answer in an accessible way.