05-01-2021, 11:05 PM
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Calculators
Has anyone here got one of those electric desk top calculators, the sort you can put a little mini roll on paper on the back to print your sums?Well they have a very thin flexible wire to the plug, and my wire has just snapped in half - might have had a little help from a 4 legged friend, but not sure.
Can this wire be mended, or replaced do you know?
Surely I haven't got to buy a new calculator just because of the lead?
05-01-2021, 11:12 PM
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Should be an easy fix involving a bit of wire cutting, stripping and soldering and some heat shrink tubing to finish it off. If you're not confident doing it yourself try a local computer repair shop, they should have everything required.Or a TV repair shop, if they still exist.
05-01-2021, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Cathode
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Should be an easy fix involving a bit of wire cutting, stripping and soldering and some heat shrink tubing to finish it off. If you're not confident doing it yourself try a local computer repair shop, they should have everything required.Or a TV repair shop, if they still exist.
Thanks Ray.
It's definitely not something I would know how to do, I'd be frightened to plug it back in against!
But I could take it to the electrical repair shop near me - if they are open - see if they would mend it.
I just wasn't sure if those thin wires could be mended.
05-01-2021, 11:40 PM
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The majority of computer shops do not have soldering equipment that would be required to repair such a fault. Look for any places local that repair TV's or radios or hifi's. They will have the equipment.By your description it sounds like it's the DC power cable that has broken, it would have a black plug with a silver end on one end and the mains socket plug on the other end.
If it's a 'must be done urgently as i cannot wait fix', as long as it's ONLY the cable that has broken off in half then you could use one of these, known as a terminal block, to do a temporary fix.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sourcingmap.../dp/B0053WRTQ8
You can buy them from Wilko, Screwfix, B&Q. The DC voltage will be low, something like 6v to 12v, therefore as a temporary measure it would be ok to use. You just take some of the black rubber sleeve off the wires so the bare wires are showing and then screw the wires into the terminal block making sure each wire matches the other. One of the wires should have a white stripe running down it.
05-01-2021, 11:48 PM
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Thank you Dodge, I will have another look at it tomorrow.Failing that, you saying about telly repair places has given me an idea.
There is a local telly repair man, no shop, just works for himself. He set up my new telly for me when I bought it a outlet of years ago.
He might be able to fix it ey?
Thank you for the idea, but failing that I will ask the electrical repairs shop.
Surely one of them old mend it.
Will let you know.
05-01-2021, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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Thank you Dodge, I will have another look at it tomorrow.Failing that, you saying about telly repair places has given me an idea.
There is a local telly repair man, no shop, just works for himself. He set up my new telly for me when I bought it a outlet of years ago.
He might be able to fix it ey?
Thank you for the idea, but failing that I will ask the electrical repairs shop.
Surely one of them old mend it.
Will let you know.
06-01-2021, 09:53 PM
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Took the lead into the electrical repair shop this afternoon and left it for the lady to show her husband later. She said she will ring me and let me know if will mend it or not, but she thought I might have to just get a new wire.Will have to wait what he says.
10-01-2021, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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Just to let you good people know the ending - the electrical shop phoned me today to say they'd mended it.They charged me a fiver, so I was well pleased.
Thanks for your advice though, folks.
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