[Ti] Fixing a power adapter cord

[Joe McDaniel]

Excellent story.  Do the cords keep breaking in the same spot?

Joe Mac


On 3/8/03 2:04 AM, "mburke6225 at aol.com" <mburke6225 at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 3/8/2003 6:20:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> gerry at netspeed.com.au writes:
> 
>> 
>> My Teenager from Hell (bless her) tripped over the cord of her iBook's white
>> power adapter the other day and it has broken... Does anyone know if these
>> can be fixed?<
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Consider yourself lucky.  I've got two teenage daughters who seem to be
> perfecting careers as an Underwriter Laboratories testers for MAC POWER CORDS.
> They must take perverse pleasure making Apple Engineers look like total idiots
> as they "trip" over the cords which magically string all over our house like
> some renagade strands of spaghetti on the floor of an Italian restaurant.  I
> have screamed, cajoled, and begged for them to stop criss crossing the floor
> with the cords.  And no they are not spoiled jerks.  They are good kids who
> just don't get it.
> 
> What makes it exasperating is that they both have iBooks and constantly short
> out their cords (at 60 to 79 bucks a piece...do the math).  After replacing
> them three times (no joke) I finally spliced the joint by cutting the cord and
> stripping the sheath from the wire and cutting away the "nubbin" of the
> adapter (tricky to do).
> 
> I then twisted and soldered then separated each pole of the attached wires
> with electrical tape, then wrapped the whole thing in electrical tape.  Looked
> like hell but it worked like a champ.  Both girls flashed me their "You're our
> hero smiles" as they went back to surfing the web (read as "doing homework").
> 
> There I was basking in the reflected iBook LCD light flashing off their braces
> when my wife takes one look at the bulbous mound of electrical tape on the
> power cord and hits the roof, "The girls could get shocked?  ARE YOU CRAZY!"
> So much for basked glory.  We went to the Apple store that night and dropped
> about 130 bucks for two new adapters.
> 
> Moral:  If you go ahead and fix the cord it will work just fine but your wife
> will likely kill you long before the cord will short out. LOL
> 
> MBurke
> 
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