Repair cut wire

indianabones

Zandoni wrote: »

To be quite honest with you it appears you have no electrical knowledge at all, so I would suggest you have it done professionally to save accidents.

Asked electricians a few times - £40 for what is a very straightforward job and me providing the connector. No thanks. £40 is 2 hours salary before tax for me. It'd probably take an electrician 15 mins tops.

Did it myself this morning, took me about 45 mins because it's very twiddly and not somethign I do on a day to day basis of course - but got there in the end.

Have just spent that last 2 hours using the hedge trimmer without any issues and the waste is off to the tip tomorrow.

indianabones

marlot wrote: »

Make sure you wire it the correct way round. The piece with the pins goes onto the wire leading to the tool. The piece with the socket wires to the 13A plug.


(Otherwise the pins are live and exposed when plugged into the mains and the connector comes undone).

The connector and instructions very clear. Says on the connector itself which side should connect to the mains and which to the appliance. The only issue I had was that a lot of the screws was crap.

marlot

No worries. Glad you got there. Now I'm retired, I spend a day a week PAT testing for a charity - I see some shocking things given in by people.

Aylesbury_Duck

marlot wrote: »

No worries. Glad you got there. Now I'm retired, I spend a day a week PAT testing for a charity - I see some shocking things given in by people.

The "best" bodge I've seen was a partially molten and browned plug which when removed (it required prising apart because the two halves had stuck together), revealed a novel fuse: a bolt shaft. Apparently, the fuse kept blowing so the owner took a bolt, sawed off the head and cut the shaft to length and used it as a fuse. Problem solved: no more blown fuses.