My electric cord falls off of lawn mower. It always did this once in a while but it's gotten much worse. It also falls off of my weed wacker.
Any helpful suggestions?
In both cases, I use the provided gizmo to hold the cord, and they work, but the 6 inches of cord or more between the gizmo and 2 electric prongs is enough to make the cord fall out or off.
I'm using a 75' orange electric cord with one 3-prong receptacle on the end. The mower and weed wacker are both Black and Decker, ten or more years old.
The prongs in each case are one layer of metal, so I can't open them like with two-layer prongs. With other things, I would bend one prong away from the other, and that usually worked, but it hasn't here. If I bend too far apart, I can't plug the thing in at all. OTOH, I"ve never had success bending prongs closer to each other.
With the lawn mower, its prongs face alsmost down, so gravity alone does most of the pulling on the cord. It used to last 10 minutes or more, but now it's often as short as a minute or two until it falls out. . The end of the cord is warmer than it should be.
With the weedwacker, the prongs are horizontal, the gizmo into which a loop of the cord is inserted is right below the prongs, and every 10 minutes or so, the cord works far enough away from all the way in that it doesn't make contact electrically.
Thanks.