Electrical tape brings mixed results
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mtbcI am fed up of laptop power supplies developing a break in the cable because the insulation and housing is so thin and flimsy that the conductor keeps bending a lot in the same place. Cleverly, or so I imagined, I took to preemptively wrapping the end of the cable in electrical tape, down to a little ways from the plug, in such a way as to arrest its curvature.
However, what defeats my cunning plan is that the bending seems to make the tape slide. After a while, the taped part of the cable develops a high-curvature region which, while fixed easily by the application of more tape, makes me wonder how many rolls of tape it takes, and how absurd the resulting charging cable will look, if I repeatedly adopt this solution over a fair few years of the computer's life.
I'm missing a better solution, aren't I?
However, what defeats my cunning plan is that the bending seems to make the tape slide. After a while, the taped part of the cable develops a high-curvature region which, while fixed easily by the application of more tape, makes me wonder how many rolls of tape it takes, and how absurd the resulting charging cable will look, if I repeatedly adopt this solution over a fair few years of the computer's life.
I'm missing a better solution, aren't I?
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Date: 2022-06-10 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-06-10 02:25 pm (UTC)I think that's the approach I'd use. Cut the Gorilla tape into 1-1.t" strips and use that as your wrap.
Myself, I can't say that I've ever had this problem and I've been using laptops for 20+ years. On the PC side, I've only replaced one power supply and that's when I sent in an IBM Thinkpad for repairs and the bat rastards not only did not return it but denied having received it when they specifically told me to include the power supply! That was some 15 years ago.
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Date: 2022-06-11 12:46 am (UTC)Sad to hear of your ThinkPad repair experience, I had great results when it was all IBM branded. Here it still seems to be IBM engineers sent out for Lenovo warranty repair but, last time I had that, the new mainboard managed to boot some leftover Windows partition that then my hard disk by overwriting the MBR which was clearly outside the engineer's experience.
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Date: 2022-06-11 04:01 am (UTC)Yeah, I read about that. I don't remember why I sent mine in, but I was royally PO'd at them losing my power supply! I think it was just a couple of years later that the Thinkpad laptop line was sold to the Chinese. But I assure you: that Gorilla duct tape is really amazing stuff! It doesn't tear: you need a knife or scissors to take it apart! I use it to repair the siding on my house to prevent my dogs from getting into the undercroft. :)