[Electronic M]

Plastic or cloth?

For plastic I tend to either take new lamp cord and add period looking plugs (obtained at garage sales and where ever else encountered), or find period looking plastic (not rubber) extension cords. If I don't much care for a set or feel it has no value I'll take a modern cord off a junked VCR TV Soldering iron etc and use that...

A local ACE hardware used to carry cloth cord... I Need a new source now (I've been able to make do but my stock is depleting), but as long as I have decent cloth cord I can just swap it and keep the original plug... I also watch for cloth era plugs so I have a few for times when the original is destroyed or missing.

I actually like the cloth over normal plastic lamp cord type. I haven't seen the cloth slide much on that. I typically cut the center with dikes to separate the leads which does a decent job on the cloth. I also tend to cover the inch or so over the ends of the cloth with heat shrink to keep it from fraying.