Round-pin mains leads (old HP, etc)

From HP test equipment mailing list I'm on, Mike Czuhajewski wrote: > Someone recently made a "somewhat OT" post to the TekScopes list > offering to give away some of the old, oval power cords that HP used > a long time ago. (They were spoken for with 3 hours.) I responded > with the following post about these cords, and it may be helpful to > those on this list as well (and not OT here!). The bottom line is > that while you have to know where to look for them, they are hardly > rare or expensive. > > Last year I did a bit of research about the oval power cord used by > HP long ago and found that it is still available off the shelf; I > ordered some from Mouser to verify it. The particular power cord for > this type of connector used to be Belden part number 17952, and is > currently made by Volex with the same number. The manufacturer web > site is > > http://www.volex.com > > I checked the web site just now and it's set up differently than it > was last year. This is the path to get to it now from the home page: > Products, power products, standard products, select North America, > detachable, then click on the X at the intersection of "special" and > "plastic" on the chart. Finally, click on "spec" for the part > number.