An IEC with grip

The grippiest C13/15A IEC I’ve experienced is from IEGo. Comes in a bunch of different flavors ranging from bare copper to gold-plated copper to rhodium-plated silver. They also happen to be a pretty good product for the money, so perhaps that’s your ticket.

Totally feel you on this one. I have been very disappointed in many of the higher end power cables from Shunyata, Wireworld, and Synergistic. They do not trip well at all. In many cases I have had to place an object or 2 under the connection to the component so they stay in place and connected.

I highly recommend DH Labs. Specifically the Power Plus Cryo and Red Wave. These cables have a super tight and secure grip. The best I have experienced. Plus they’re amazing cables. I replaced a Shunyata Delta on my Processor with the Power Plus and what a difference! Solid connections!

There’s a lot of quite humorous but not very PC jokes that come to mind regarding the male / female plug matter which I will leave alone….

That said, I wonder why no one has come up with power cord locking devices similar to the older multi pin computer cables w/ a thumb screw on each side to lock the cable in place & thus separating out the mechanical & electrical connections? 

@jonwolfpell I hear you there on the jokes! Your wondering also might find an answer in the form of a joke by Randall Monroe:

https://xkcd.com/927/
Universal standards are tricky beasts, to be sure.

If you’re looking for a mechanical solution that doesn’t require replacing plugs or inlets, Furutech makes a “bracer boost” which is essentially a chunk of their NCF material with some adhesive. Comes in singles and doubles.

After trying many different things over the years, the only things that really work are the retention sleeves mentioned in an earlier post. And they work great and are cheap.