We’ve likely all seen a power tool with a less-than-functional strain relief at one end of the power cord or the other. Fixing the plug end is easy, but at the tool end things are a little harder and often not worth the effort compared to the price of just replacing the tool. There’s no obsolescence like built-in obsolescence.
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Jun 02, 2010 The PowerCurl Cord Manager ($15) is a square, clip-on device that keeps both ends of your power cord — the thin cord that goes from computer to the square charger, and the thicker cord. Powering the Mac Mini. Chop apart the Apple-supplied power cable roughly 1/3 of the way from the tip. There are two thick wires (power and ground) and one thin gray wire (iSense). Put mating Molex 3 pin connectors on them so that you can still use the Apple power supply if you need/want to. Now, we just need to put a 3-pin connector on the. Sep 28, 2017 Along with the HP charger i also brought the 'AC Power Adapter Charger Cable DC Repair Cord for Apple Macbook MagSafe 1 L 45W 60W 85W'. White Cord is +Ve and Black cord is -Ve Once i received both these items it took me 15 mins to get my charger ready.
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But in the land of Festo, that high-quality but exorbitantly priced brand of premium tools, the normal cost-benefit relationship of repairs is skewed. That’s what led [Mark Presling] to custom mold a new strain relief for a broken Festool cord. The dodgy tool is an orbital sander with Festool’s interchangeable “Plug It” type power cord, which could have been replaced for the princely sum of $65. Rather than suffer that disgrace, [Mark] built a mold for a new strain relief from two pieces of aluminum. The mold fits around the cord once it has been slathered with Sugru, a moldable adhesive compound. The video below shows the mold build, which has some interesting tips for the lathe, and the molding process itself. The Sugru was a little touchy about curing, but in the end the new strain relief looks almost like an original part.
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Hats off to [Presser] for not taking the easy way out, and for showing off some techniques that could really help around the shop. We suppose the mold could have been 3D-printed rather than machined; after all, we’ve seen such molds before, and that 3D-printed dies can be robust enough to punch metal parts.