Which might be worth grabbing if Dave was both into building a lot of small projects and wasn't trying to divest himself of crap due to his space downsizing.
@@jma2022 I see that now in the teardown :( my fun is ruined. Haha j/k. But anyone else notice there's a symbol on the back for do not throw away yet they were all thrown in the dumpster perhaps by the very ppl that made them and had the do not throw away sign put on it (for regulations of course)
here is Australia most these types of things do have the "not for general waste" symbols, but most people either don't know what they are, don't look, or don't care
I would took some of those adapters and clear plugs as they can be unscrewed and reused again for good purpouse ... again treasure ... i love your dumpster, its like a treasure mine!
Two-minute teardown on the box things? Don't need to see the USA-castoff plugs though, seen them before, insufficient compared to the Mighty BS1362 13 Amp British plug, yeah, shots fired... :P
@@PRiMETECHAU You might be surprised how much you can get for a bit of effort. I once got a pile of wire that had been pulled out of some machinery that was being rewired. It was just loose insulated stranded copper wire thrown on a standard size shipping pallet maybe a foot deep. I think they were just going to tip it in the dumpster. I asked if I could have it and took it half a mile down the road to the recycler and got a check for something like $120.00.
I'd suggest grabbing a specimen or two of each plug and/or enclosure and taking them back to the lab for dissection. Are the plugs/sockets themselves reusable at all?
I worked in a company and we had special mains sockets and plugs because they were on the big UPS system. Mainly for radios and the switchboard. I guess to stop people plugging vacuum cleaners and laser printers in.
Probably not allowed but people are lazy and/or morons. Happens at work all the time... we have an E-waste bin, but some people toss it in the "waste to energy" bin anyway. And yes, when I see it, I fix it :).
Funny story about that. I used to pick up plasma and LCD t.v's off the footpath during roadside collection, fix them and sell them on Ebay. Eventually of course, you end up with a bunch of carcasses from the ones that donated parts or weren't worth the trouble. So I took about 17 carcasses to the council "recycling centre" because I knew they took E-waste. As soon as I started throwing the boards, panels and casings into the bin some dude came racing up screaming at me, telling me that "That's not E-waste" and that I could throw the boards and transformers in there, but the metals had to go somewhere else, and the plastics were "not E-waste" and I'd have to throw them in the general waste pit and pay for dumping it. Mind you, our property rates pay for these facilities to be run. So essentially, even though we pay for these centres to be there through our property taxes, they won't accept "E-waste" if you've already disassembled it AND they expect you to pay to dump the perfectly recyclable plastics into the ground. This is supposed to be a "recycling centre". So NOT ONLY are they not recycling, they don't actually offer a "free E-waste" service, or at least, won't accept disassembled electronics (I assume because whoever collects it won't pay them for the E-waste, if it's not in one piece. Fkn double dipping RIP OFF! Under the guise of doing something for the environment.
@asdrubale bisanzio One time I found an entire security system in there (upgraded the observation cameras on our tubing mill)... Had a 24" 1080P LCD with it, which I cleaned up and added to my desk. Rolled a lot of eyes, but it works, "matches" my other external display (used with a laptop dock) and legal since it's not like I took it home or something. Reuse is the best form of recycling!
@asdrubale bisanzio I'd be fine with that, I'm not fine with being told to dump the plastics in the ground and pay for the privilege. Especially in what is supposedly an "recycling centre" I think you missed my point. Perhaps I didn't spell it out clearly enough for you.
I would wager a guess as to the adapter looking boxes to be low voltage regulators for some led lighting fixtures probably converted an office space to led lighting using off the shelf led shop lights but wired them into existing fixtures so they did not need all the extra connectors and regulators as they are doing it with the fixtures.
Scrapyards in Australia won't pay for cable with plugs (or other stuff) on them. It's common in Australia for people to collect the insulated cable to sell as scrap and remove the plugs so they can actually sell them to the scrapyard.
We throw away 24V, 19V and 12V power supplies by the boxes. We integrate slip printers, 17" displays, and small PCs into a product that must be able to run from lead acid batteries. We cut the low voltage cables from the psu to get the plug that plugs into the equipment and provide our own 24V etc supply. I took a box of each voltage PSUs for projects, but you can only use so many power supplies...
Hi Dave, at 0:51, that plug looks like it has red, black and Green/yellow mains wiring. Is Red and Black still legal? Did you grab one of the box thingys and have a look inside?
@@Kirillissimus There's a mix of plastics there by the looks, requiring human effort to pull apart the plugs to separate. So much recyclable material is already just getting warehoused or ultimately dumped into landfill on the quiet because there's no market for it.
Those plug ends are probably like 5ish bucks a pop and reusable, I'd totally be tempted to take as many as I can carry lol. Great for making extension cords and such. My guess is there is something wrong with the power supplies (recall?) and they kept the cables to sell as scrap copper.
Probably some company was doing bulk E-waste recycling of some type of product where they stripped the copper out of the cords and threw out the plugs because they can't be recycled.
Electricians here in Germany, which do safety checks sadly tend to do that, not when the plug is unsafe, but the device fails the test. Then they just cut the plug off, so you can't use it anymore.
On moulded plugs chop at least the pins off, not only the cable. Otherwise someone may be shocked by the bare end, or the chopped off cable may be mashed together and you could plug in a nice short circuit and be showered with sparks.
As others have already said, they would have been cutting the cables off to take them to a recycle place as 'PVC coated copper'. Can get a reasonable amount of money for not too much cable, but they won't accept plugs so you have to cut the cable part off. You can get even more money if you strip just the copper out of the cable, but that would be a massive job I imagine. Current prices of a recycle place in SA is $2.90 per kg for PVC copper, and $6.55 per kg for bare copper.
The cables would have been salvaged and sold to a recycler for the copper. If I had to take a guess, I'd say they replace a whole heap of ceiling lights and these are the leftovers that they couldn't make a quick buck off.
My guess, the company ordered a boatload of these plugs, checked out initially as okay but then a inspection (or incident) months down the line said they where not up to spec (makes it a liability) so the company won't include them in their product and dumped the whole lot but to recover some of the loss chopped the cables off to trade for metal price.
States "16A" not 10A, has CE marking but no C-Tick. Someone imported or commissioned non-compliant product. I believe some parts (all?) of Aus no longer allow for C-Ticks to be on an extra sticker or label; they have to be present on the device from the factory. This reduces people getting a carton of stickers and re-labelling non-compliant products.
You should have tested one of those adapters to see what the problem was. My guess is there is nothing wrong with them, technically, or regulatory. I believe this was the result of an huge re-decoration done in one of the offices. Contractor just didn't bother to keep these (well paid I suppose) but took all the cables for re-use (or for the copper in them). Big waste.
Maybe they're old led drivers or something that have failed/been replaced, like some company decided to redo all their lights at once. Cables were maybe cut off so they could be sold for scrap copper.
Dave in the way back machine there is a moment in my life when walking past Brights Wines in Niagara Falls Ontario listening to my Sony Walkman Radio I was beguiled by a news report of a situation that I had never in my life heard of before. A company had managed to make an insulation for an extension cord conductive. Plastic with the V and A to seriously do you harm. Total product recall was announced. Gotta wonder if these have a "we need a recall and product destruction" event attached to them.
In that kind of building, there's ALWAYS someone reconfiguring a space to be something else. If you're lucky, all the crap from the previous tenant was already cleared out when you got the space.
You could ask them, that's what I sometimes do. Just stick an "out of interesst, why do you had to cut off the adapters from the cables?" note and a pen there. 📝 edit 1,2: fix typos
I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to use double adaptors in a business environment any more. Something about straining the wall socket they're plugged into. Only powerboards can be used.
I’m guessing a floor in the building has had its lighting system changed out for led lights and they have chopped off the cables for that copper and discarded the ballasts and plugs.
Those plugs look like they are rewireable, so would have filled up a mini dumpster of them to get a lifetime supply, plus a dozen or so of the boxes as cheap power adaptor replacement boxes. Old no longer available power adaptors with the typical one failed capacitor will easily fit there, because the original case is destroyed repairing it.
I'd say they have been stripped for the copper in the cables. Not uncommon here in Germany that whole construction sites will get stripped over the weekend by thieves. The railway is even sprinkling some nano powder with holograms on their cables to identify it on scrapyards.
Interesting. The clear plugs look like they're wired with the old red / black / green equipment cabling which was changed to brown / blue yellow-green stripe many moons ago.
For flex wiring brown/blue is recommended but not required. red/black is likely by ordering wire from international suppliers which still meets AS3000.
Hi I see a woollies trolley You should have grabbed one and see what type of adapter it was eg 240v to 19v dc etc I am guessing the cables were kept by someone who sold them for the copper value to sims metal Regards George
Looks like those white unit are Plugwise Sting units, as shown here: www.plugwise.com/documents/plugwise/product_documents/EN-sting-ts.pdf. Inline power-monitoring devices that report and have some control over Zigbee network.
any chance you could grab that filing cabinet mate? i could do with one for the shed. just let me know how much the shipping is and I'll send you a cheque for it.
I'd be fishing out all those transparent plugs, they look like the Delta brand plugs bunnings sell for $3 each. There is what, 100 in there, $300 worth of plugs. Best guess this is a chinese imported product, they tried putting new plugs on them, but they still didn't pass so the whole lot got chopped up.
that is NOT how you cut power damit! but yes this is quite bizarre sight to see and only a handfull of things make sense - as mentioned in video noncompliance, or perhaps some infringing design copy made that was only discovered during first series run, maybe something to do with casing being made out of too brittle or easily meltable plastic?
That poor intern, his arms will hurt for days.
They're wireless plugs!
ha!
Yes, they have been converted ;)
Well they are now!
technically true
Thanks I needed that 😂😂😂👍🏻
I see a heap of reasonably nice hobby project enclosures.
I was reading the comments to see If I was the only one :)
underrated comment.
I just commented the same and now if feel validated. I'm running out of playing card boxes, that looks like a gold mine.
Which might be worth grabbing if Dave was both into building a lot of small projects and wasn't trying to divest himself of crap due to his space downsizing.
Dave, you have to tear one of those down and see what the EMC situation is!
I'm with the others... this calls for a teardown with speculative investigation!
Take a few home to open up
That would be interesting to see where the compliance has failed.
Dremel surgery time!
@@MeltyBubs I see four screws
@@jma2022 I see that now in the teardown :( my fun is ruined. Haha j/k. But anyone else notice there's a symbol on the back for do not throw away yet they were all thrown in the dumpster perhaps by the very ppl that made them and had the do not throw away sign put on it (for regulations of course)
But you didnt take the plug pack thingy apart.
Now I'll never know what in the hell was inside! Lmao
Watch the previous videos, TL;DR The people who threw them also had removed any modules. Just empty box now.
Should've taken one apart to see if there was any obvious malfunctions within...
He opened it in previous video.
Perhaps cables were recycled. There's copper in them there hills, of wires.
As Tony Soprano told Assemblyman Zelman: maximum value. Rip out the copper and sell it
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@@TonyRule WOW. People are animals.
@@tawpgk And they're only getting worse.
@@TonyRule A bare RUclips link always looks like spam by some bot to me...
Shady mains electrical sounds like something BigClive would be into tearing down.
This is definitely a big Clive kinda think
Opaque, transparent, I think you missed the invisible plugs in the third dumpster.
It's surprisuinsurprising to see people just put these in general waste and not paying for electrical recycling like here in Europe.
here is Australia most these types of things do have the "not for general waste" symbols, but most people either don't know what they are, don't look, or don't care
You wouldn't see that in Canada either.
@@Ressy66 they know they just don't care.
There's a possibility they will be, it's just rolled up into their monthly 'services'
@@Ressy66 I'd say it's most that don't care, unfortunately the leaders of our Nation think this is okay too.
Damn, those clear plugs are $20 each new ! Save them Dave!
nah more like $4, and that's assuming they are a premium brand. Might only get a dollar each for them second hand.
It doesn’t looks like they can be reused, maybe tho, hard to tell
@@AustinChopra They can, but it's hardly worth the bother of getting the two halves apart.
I would took some of those adapters and clear plugs as they can be unscrewed and reused again for good purpouse ... again treasure ... i love your dumpster, its like a treasure mine!
Two-minute teardown on the box things? Don't need to see the USA-castoff plugs though, seen them before, insufficient compared to the Mighty BS1362 13 Amp British plug, yeah, shots fired... :P
Open one up.
Yeah, actually that would be nice. Censor the vendor, maybe.
Damn, those mains plugs in the second dumpster are reusable...
Those clear ones looked like they were reusable. Worth grabbing a few.
Cable probably went to recycling for the copper.
Quite possible.
yeah they only accept cable not plugs so this is basically what you would need to do. However it seems like allot of effort for a bit of copper money.
@@PRiMETECHAU You might be surprised how much you can get for a bit of effort. I once got a pile of wire that had been pulled out of some machinery that was being rewired. It was just loose insulated stranded copper wire thrown on a standard size shipping pallet maybe a foot deep. I think they were just going to tip it in the dumpster. I asked if I could have it and took it half a mile down the road to the recycler and got a check for something like $120.00.
Wasteful and hurt the planet
@@rabbithazel3034 It's likely unprofitable to recycle/reuse it. And of course profit is considered way more important than the state of the planet.
Oh man, all I can see is free project boxes. I would be grabbing them all!
gotta take them apart! must know what those adaptors are! next video??
I'd suggest grabbing a specimen or two of each plug and/or enclosure and taking them back to the lab for dissection. Are the plugs/sockets themselves reusable at all?
I worked in a company and we had special mains sockets and plugs because they were on the big UPS system. Mainly for radios and the switchboard. I guess to stop people plugging vacuum cleaners and laser printers in.
"General Waste". No regulations to use e-waste there?
GENERAL WASTE **SALUTES**
Probably not allowed but people are lazy and/or morons. Happens at work all the time... we have an E-waste bin, but some people toss it in the "waste to energy" bin anyway. And yes, when I see it, I fix it :).
Funny story about that. I used to pick up plasma and LCD t.v's off the footpath during roadside collection, fix them and sell them on Ebay. Eventually of course, you end up with a bunch of carcasses from the ones that donated parts or weren't worth the trouble.
So I took about 17 carcasses to the council "recycling centre" because I knew they took E-waste. As soon as I started throwing the boards, panels and casings into the bin some dude came racing up screaming at me, telling me that "That's not E-waste" and that I could throw the boards and transformers in there, but the metals had to go somewhere else, and the plastics were "not E-waste" and I'd have to throw them in the general waste pit and pay for dumping it.
Mind you, our property rates pay for these facilities to be run.
So essentially, even though we pay for these centres to be there through our property taxes, they won't accept "E-waste" if you've already disassembled it AND they expect you to pay to dump the perfectly recyclable plastics into the ground.
This is supposed to be a "recycling centre".
So NOT ONLY are they not recycling, they don't actually offer a "free E-waste" service, or at least, won't accept disassembled electronics (I assume because whoever collects it won't pay them for the E-waste, if it's not in one piece.
Fkn double dipping RIP OFF! Under the guise of doing something for the environment.
@asdrubale bisanzio One time I found an entire security system in there (upgraded the observation cameras on our tubing mill)... Had a 24" 1080P LCD with it, which I cleaned up and added to my desk. Rolled a lot of eyes, but it works, "matches" my other external display (used with a laptop dock) and legal since it's not like I took it home or something. Reuse is the best form of recycling!
@asdrubale bisanzio I'd be fine with that, I'm not fine with being told to dump the plastics in the ground and pay for the privilege. Especially in what is supposedly an "recycling centre"
I think you missed my point. Perhaps I didn't spell it out clearly enough for you.
That is so interesting! It would be even more interesting if you could reverse engineer them to see if there is a design flaw!
What was in the boxes? Several had yellow warning stickers applied.
Perhaps some sort of line filter or switch? Seems they plug in to the mains and allow some other mains connection on the other end.
Maybe a failed Kikstarter ‘Reduce Your Energy Bills By Half’ device?
Jeesus I would pick around 100 of each of those. M8 in Australia you have the best dumpsters
Saved the wires for copper recycling/selling to scrappers.
I would wager a guess as to the adapter looking boxes to be low voltage regulators for some led lighting fixtures probably converted an office space to led lighting using off the shelf led shop lights but wired them into existing fixtures so they did not need all the extra connectors and regulators as they are doing it with the fixtures.
Scrapyards in Australia won't pay for cable with plugs (or other stuff) on them. It's common in Australia for people to collect the insulated cable to sell as scrap and remove the plugs so they can actually sell them to the scrapyard.
There's only one thing you can do now, Dave...
Harvest all adapters!!
We throw away 24V, 19V and 12V power supplies by the boxes. We integrate slip printers, 17" displays, and small PCs into a product that must be able to run from lead acid batteries. We cut the low voltage cables from the psu to get the plug that plugs into the equipment and provide our own 24V etc supply. I took a box of each voltage PSUs for projects, but you can only use so many power supplies...
Hi Dave, at 0:51, that plug looks like it has red, black and Green/yellow mains wiring.
Is Red and Black still legal?
Did you grab one of the box thingys and have a look inside?
Looks like the salvage bay in my workshop, I'm a pat tester for a recycle shop and we even salvage the brass pins from the plugs
Teardown teardown teardown teardown teardown teardown!
Make a nice project if they still good.
One word: Copper. :)
This amount of pure plastic is also worth a pretty penny. Not nearly as much as the copper inside but still.
@@Kirillissimus There's a mix of plastics there by the looks, requiring human effort to pull apart the plugs to separate. So much recyclable material is already just getting warehoused or ultimately dumped into landfill on the quiet because there's no market for it.
Oh noes, the stuff with the wheelie bin logo on them, found in the bin!
Those plug ends are probably like 5ish bucks a pop and reusable, I'd totally be tempted to take as many as I can carry lol. Great for making extension cords and such. My guess is there is something wrong with the power supplies (recall?) and they kept the cables to sell as scrap copper.
Probably some company was doing bulk E-waste recycling of some type of product where they stripped the copper out of the cords and threw out the plugs because they can't be recycled.
Electricians here in Germany, which do safety checks sadly tend to do that, not when the plug is unsafe, but the device fails the test. Then they just cut the plug off, so you can't use it anymore.
On moulded plugs chop at least the pins off, not only the cable. Otherwise someone may be shocked by the bare end, or the chopped off cable may be mashed together and you could plug in a nice short circuit and be showered with sparks.
Those boxes probably have some resistors or diodes in them, might be worth cracking one or more open to see, and stocking up.
I'd like to see a teardown of one of those plug packs if they haven't gone already.
They look like electronic ballasts or led drivers
As others have already said, they would have been cutting the cables off to take them to a recycle place as 'PVC coated copper'. Can get a reasonable amount of money for not too much cable, but they won't accept plugs so you have to cut the cable part off. You can get even more money if you strip just the copper out of the cable, but that would be a massive job I imagine. Current prices of a recycle place in SA is $2.90 per kg for PVC copper, and $6.55 per kg for bare copper.
Ohhhhh. They must be the new Xiaomi wireless chargers wich can charge your Phone in a room.
The cables would have been salvaged and sold to a recycler for the copper. If I had to take a guess, I'd say they replace a whole heap of ceiling lights and these are the leftovers that they couldn't make a quick buck off.
My guess, the company ordered a boatload of these plugs, checked out initially as okay but then a inspection (or incident) months down the line said they where not up to spec (makes it a liability) so the company won't include them in their product and dumped the whole lot but to recover some of the loss chopped the cables off to trade for metal price.
Some scrapper had fun. Copa price is amazing rn
States "16A" not 10A, has CE marking but no C-Tick.
Someone imported or commissioned non-compliant product.
I believe some parts (all?) of Aus no longer allow for C-Ticks to be on an extra sticker or label; they have to be present on the device from the factory. This reduces people getting a carton of stickers and re-labelling non-compliant products.
You should have tested one of those adapters to see what the problem was. My guess is there is nothing wrong with them, technically, or regulatory. I believe this was the result of an huge re-decoration done in one of the offices. Contractor just didn't bother to keep these (well paid I suppose) but took all the cables for re-use (or for the copper in them). Big waste.
Kind of nice boxes for project
It’s when the cables are separated before scrapping the copper without the ends on.
Probably all from lightning replacement due to office fitout.
I also think they were doing it for the raw recycled wire value. I've done a bit of that myself but nothing even close to that scale.
Oh man i could use those mains plugs, i have to cut off molded plugs from cables that get damaged and shorten them to pass test and tag.
Great tear down! Find out what's wrong.
Can take a few hands full for future repairs and projects
Maybe they're old led drivers or something that have failed/been replaced, like some company decided to redo all their lights at once. Cables were maybe cut off so they could be sold for scrap copper.
I would have taken some and used those cases as project boxes.
they are after the copper. proablly $1000 woth depending on the size of the cables they cut
Dave in the way back machine there is a moment in my life when walking past Brights Wines in Niagara Falls Ontario listening to my Sony Walkman Radio I was beguiled by a news report of a situation that I had never in my life heard of before. A company had managed to make an insulation for an extension cord conductive. Plastic with the V and A to seriously do you harm. Total product recall was announced. Gotta wonder if these have a "we need a recall and product destruction" event attached to them.
Are they refitting something (lights?) in the building? All adapters are thrown away and cables are kept for value (recycling)?
In that kind of building, there's ALWAYS someone reconfiguring a space to be something else. If you're lucky, all the crap from the previous tenant was already cleared out when you got the space.
You could ask them, that's what I sometimes do. Just stick an "out of interesst, why do you had to cut off the adapters from the cables?" note and a pen there. 📝
edit 1,2: fix typos
Here you get more money for electrical cable from the recycle if you cut the plugs and adapter from the cable
I see Dave already had his shopping cart parked on standby. Sorry, better luck next time.
I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to use double adaptors in a business environment any more. Something about straining the wall socket they're plugged into. Only powerboards can be used.
Some poor intern had to sit there for hours cutting plugs off.
I’m guessing a floor in the building has had its lighting system changed out for led lights and they have chopped off the cables for that copper and discarded the ballasts and plugs.
Those plugs look like they are rewireable, so would have filled up a mini dumpster of them to get a lifetime supply, plus a dozen or so of the boxes as cheap power adaptor replacement boxes. Old no longer available power adaptors with the typical one failed capacitor will easily fit there, because the original case is destroyed repairing it.
I'd say they have been stripped for the copper in the cables. Not uncommon here in Germany that whole construction sites will get stripped over the weekend by thieves. The railway is even sprinkling some nano powder with holograms on their cables to identify it on scrapyards.
Take several for study. Wire some of em up and see if they pop
I'd expect a teardown at the very least!
Shocking...
You'd think with that much plastic and metal, not to mention what's in the square ones, they would recycle them rather than put them in general trash.
Interesting. The clear plugs look like they're wired with the old red / black / green equipment cabling which was changed to
brown / blue yellow-green stripe many moons ago.
For flex wiring brown/blue is recommended but not required. red/black is likely by ordering wire from international suppliers which still meets AS3000.
@@tmmtmm wow, I thought the flex wiring was effectively mandatory, along with the part insulation of active / neutral pins.
the crackheads on floor 17 probably farming the copper from the cables ;P
Don't turn it into a mystery, take it apart!
Its because they get more money for clean scrap cable than with the plugs on. It makes it very worthwhile to do it.
Hi
I see a woollies trolley
You should have grabbed one and see what type of adapter it was eg 240v to 19v dc etc
I am guessing the cables were kept by someone who sold them for the copper value to sims metal
Regards
George
You should have grabbed one of those with yellow label
Can we get part 2 of the DIY trezor please?
Got very few views, no one seemed interested.
They probably saved the cables for other purposes, possibly to reuse it for another product.
I They are wireless extension cords, a new products from the guys at battery maximizer.
sell those clear ones on ebay lol
Watching your dumpster videos reminds me that I was born on the wrong side of the planet.
Looks like those white unit are Plugwise Sting units, as shown here: www.plugwise.com/documents/plugwise/product_documents/EN-sting-ts.pdf. Inline power-monitoring devices that report and have some control over Zigbee network.
any chance you could grab that filing cabinet mate? i could do with one for the shed. just let me know how much the shipping is and I'll send you a cheque for it.
Unless you live in Sydney, it is probably cheaper to buy a used one locally than shipping that on the dumpster room to you
@@gino.avanzini I'm in the UK, that's practically the same thing as australia, how far could it be?
Guessing faulty due to recall possibly cause fires or some other destructive fault.
For the brass terminal, why not salvage them out and save for the next scrap when you have tons of brass?
Too costly to break down compared to the value of the brass (or the tiny bit of copper wire left in the plug).
I'd be fishing out all those transparent plugs, they look like the Delta brand plugs bunnings sell for $3 each.
There is what, 100 in there, $300 worth of plugs.
Best guess this is a chinese imported product, they tried putting new plugs on them, but they still didn't pass so the whole lot got chopped up.
All of that going straight to landfill. A depressing thought....
I'm going to guess the plugs had a fault to them like over heating or breaking and they had to discard them but keeping the wire.
Would've recycled the wires for copper.
I've heard they do that to protect the original owners from liability relating property damage / injury from their use in the future.
Oh no! The plugpocalypse!
recycle cable, you get more if you remove the ends
You guys down under finally going to embrace the BS1363 plug? 😁
that is NOT how you cut power damit!
but yes this is quite bizarre sight to see and only a handfull of things make sense - as mentioned in video noncompliance, or perhaps some infringing design copy made that was only discovered during first series run, maybe something to do with casing being made out of too brittle or easily meltable plastic?