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Burn in power cord by boiling water??

A Hi-Fi dealer the other day told me that in order to burn in and smoothen out a new power cord, I should get my wife to use it on the kettle to boil water (Rather sexist remark, I know). The theory is that kettles draw a lot more current than hi-fi equipment. He further advised not to do it more than 3 times.

Just a bit worried that the wife might not want to return the power cord after she discovers that her coffee tastes a lot better by using it.

Any opinions on this?
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bob_bundus
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we were discussing this issue with Bob Crump, & decided that drawing more breakin current than will be used in the atucal application probably isn't going to have much of an advantageous effect.
I use one of Ernie's reverse cheater cords w\ the refrigerator as load & have found that works fine.
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