Repair 100 foot length extension cords

I think tape is about as good as you can do, eg black electric tape which is easier to work with than duct tape. If a 100 ft one is compromised in four spots, probably time to toss it.

Extension cords or garden hoses - 50 ft. works for me. ... the longer lengths are a pita to roll up. John T.

Silicon tape, at least that is one name for it. It may have other names.

If it doesn't work this way, it's not what I mean. You stretch it quite a bit as you put it on, you partially overlap multiple layers, and after a couple days, it merges into one big blob. AFAIK, they never come apart.

I even took one that was cut, soldered the wires together, wrapped each conductor whose insulation was damaged, then wrapped the whole thing. Works fine.

I need about 100 feet to reach to my back yard with the lawn mower or to reach the parking lot where my car is. But I don't roll it up either. It just lies in the grass for the last 8 years, in the rain, under the snow, whatever. it may have tripped the GFI once or twice, but maybe that was something else.

The garden hose I roll up but my 39 year old reel is rusting and I don't like any of the replacements.

I call that self vulcanizing tape. I haven't had good results with it, maybe I had an old roll.

I don't know if they contain much silicon or not. Aother thing to tell if you have the right stuff is that it has a backing tape, which is hard to seaparate from the tape, but it can be done.

And it's expensive, but worth it.

Apparently they added an e to the end of the name to make it harder for me to find. Why is everyone against me?

Self-fusing is another good word that goes with it.

This might be it,

Silicon is an element. A metalloid. Similar to a metal. Silicone is a rubber. A polymer. Nothing like a metal.

Yes, but when I bought it 10 years ago it was called silicon tape. Now it's called silicone. I don't know why, but there are a lot of e's in this world and some need a good home.

I'm old school so I'd go with rubber tape covered with vinyl.

We used a lot of it when I was in jet aircraft maintenance in the USAF. I never had a problem with it.

I never liked it when people say "silicone" when they mean silicon. In this case it appears "silicone" is the correct word. i don't know why it was called silicon.

One of these e-problems is when people mix up "breath" and "breathe". That really happens a lot (and not just on the internet).

Only by loosers.

Silicone was never called silicon and vice versa. Anyone who says either was the other is a doofus.

Silicon is a mineral used in semicondictors and steel alloys.Brittle and blue. Silicone is a polymer made of siloxane. Neither should be mistaken for slica - which is a compound of siicon (actually an oxide) - better known as quartz and a major component of sand (and glass)

Who don't care about the unwanted superfluous extra 'o' that doesn't belong there.

Probably so, This was the first time I even heard silicone called silicon, although I have heard silicon called silicone. As to the "doofus" part, probably so.

Then there were the valleys:

- Santa Clara Valley is the Silicon Valley. - San Fernando Valley was the Silicone Valley.