Just finally got round to trying to sort the slow cooker with the melted cable.
I've cut the large black outer sheath around the wires in the area with obvious damage and revealed an earth wire with bare wire showing through the sheath.
[Interestingly my continuity tester didn't show leakage to earth, but some leakage between live and neutral. However that seems to have gone now that I have separated the three wires in the obviously damaged area. Ah! - just remembered that the control switch was on High and is now Off so I was seeing resistance but connection through the heating element. The joys of writing something down.]This reminded me of an issue with heat shrink wrap. If you have a moulded plug at one end and a device at the other, how do you get shrink wrap onto the cable?
I have just imagined a sheet of material which wraps around itself then seals and shrinks when heated. Sort of self-amalgamating heat shrink wrap. However I haven't found any by searching so far. Just wondered if such a thing existed.
Cheers
Dave R