Why so difficult to find a C1 power cable?

This style of cable used to be everywhere in the US, but now I can't find them anywhere, except for wholesale sites that require a large minimum order. Ebay and Amazon are useless as well.

 

As far as I know, those were mainly used in shavers with one of those coiled cords. Since virtually all shavers are cordless now, perhaps the cables are becoming rare too? What do you need it for? My radios mainly use C7.

 

C7 was mostly Euro. But in the US most boomboxes used C1, or a rectangular one that doesn't even appear on the IEC charts anymore.

 

May be some of the old notebook power supplies have used this too ?

 

There were some cheap rechargeable razors, lint removers etc, in which the charger was built into the unit which used those leads. It might be easier to look for one of those than a lead on its own.

Edit. No problem finding the curly cables here
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391685974702

I even found this more normal "vintage" one
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/377052042396

 

Unfortunately most of those seem to use a C5 or C7 to fit into the brick.

Yeah I thought about those, but spiral leads are quite unattractive. Plus spirals are usually longer than straight leads, meaning more internal resistance

 

Any good? You'd obviously need to check whether they ship to the States...

https://www.nedis-uk.co.uk/products...aight-nickel-plated-2-00-m-flat-pvc-black-box

 

Yeah that's the C1 style I need, thanks! But it has a Euro wall input, I'm looking for US style

 

Don't you have rewirable plugs there? I'm in the UK and would just cut the Euro plug off and fit a 3 pin one.

 

Rewirable plugs? Haven't heard of that

 

You snip off the Euro plug and fit something like this...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton...zed-Plug-White-101-WH-R62-00101-0WH/302183191

 

Cool, thanks!