Wolf garten 3200e mower help please

ampersand

Lawn mower no-go, so sortakinda DIY, but will also post on Greenfingered ms.
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http://www.wolf-garten.org/products/lawnmowers/electric-mowers/details.html?tt_products[backPID]=13070&tt_products[product]=56978&tt_products[cat]=2310&cHash=db2c3e2468b38259d14ad41ac0219d3e

Only after dismantling starter/controls [all was fine], did I see the earth wire from the rubber moulded plug, which joins in to start the mower, is severed.

This just shows in the tiny gap between end of trailing 15m flex and end of plug.

It's a moulded rubber plug, no screws. Could I carefully slit this with a cutting tool to re-wire it? This plug casing shelters a pair of 2mm holes into which the fixed round contact pins slot. It's a 15m lead. Mower bought May 2012.

Hope that's clear enough.

Don't want to have to find/fund a whole new lead/plug combo when it's a small fix with simple plugs.

Many thanks.

ampersand

Bumpity bump.

Rain's arrived, so a few more msers might be home to offer ideas :-)

Hoping...

tony6403

I have never seen this make of mower but I would guess that it is made of plastic.
If that is right I would be surprised if it has an earth wire.
Are you sure ?

ampersand

Not the red/yellow plastic mower itself, Tony, but the 19m trailing flex obviously does.

I'll visit H.Gee later....today, I suddenly realise :-)
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