10 meter power cable with broken earth strand.

[Jim White]

+1 Strangely it was nearly always the neutral on my Metabos

[Dave Plowman (News]

My next door neighbour's Dyson broke the cable (where it enters the body) twice. I repaired it both times. The repair lasted as long as the original

- give or take.

[Andrew]

This is a trip to Ms Whiplash. I claim my £5

[Andrew]

This was not a problem when the iron was plugged into a bayonet light fitting because the (short) cable, plus the light flex just gently swung back and forth :-)

[Andrew]

Would some heat-shrink sleeving over the vulnerable section provide some extra mechanical protection ?

Or even a short length of rubber petrol pipe that fits reasonably snuggly over the cable at the point where it enters the power tool??

[Peter Able]

He asked a question; I gave him a tested solution.

Note the absence of opinions.

I clearly don't fit in!

PA

[Thomas Prufer]

No -- the strain relief needs to be mechanically held by the case of the tool, else it's just a lever to bend the flex more efficiently. And just wedging it in the case doesn't give enough grip. (Using a bicycle patch kit's rubber solution to stick broken strain relief together again doesn't last a week, more like a day...) I fixed the tools tradesmen used, and they would wrap the flex around the tool and toss the tool in a bucket. Or drop the tool off a ladder, grab it by the cable, pull the cable hard when it got hooked up on something etc etc.

I searched for "rubber strain relief" and bought an assortment of likely sizes.

Thomas Prufer

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Usually not, its not a stuff as the outer of the flex.

That's what those rubber things where the cable goes into the device do but usually that just sees the break where that ends instead.

[Ian Jackson]

When it's pretty obvious that some part of a cable is likely to fail because of flexing, I've used self-amalgamating tape to beef things up.

[Dave Plowman (News]

As I said, I've repaired lots of personal mic leads on radio mics. They mostly break where they enter the connector. Use any form of reinforcement, and the next break moves to the end of that. And with many, the entire cable can't be replaced. So the mic has a longer life with the break closest to the connector - before the cable becomes too short after several repairs.

[Jacob Jones]

That is a rather different situation tho, much thinner an more flexible cable.

And with