Repair your macintosh power cord

Step 7 Sheath and strain relief

Slide the sheath back down the cable onto the jack assembly. Yours should snap into place. Mine is broken, so no snap-action here...

Since mine was broken, I applied some electrical tape to bandage it.

Now for the coup-de-grace: Heat up your glue gun, and fashion a nice strain relief out of hot-melt glue!

Et voila! Just as good as new. Actually, probably better than new. And: it's got that post-apocalyptic look I know you love :)

Comments

[bydto]

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[msjarmer]

This was great. This page came up when I was looking for a place to buy a new power cord. Not only did it save me money but time as well. I didn't want to wait a week to get a new power cord, thats to long to be with out a computer. Good old powerbook G4, still going strong after 6 years.

[kingtiger]

ditto, my powerbook g4 is still going strong... it's just the power adapters that keep crapping out on me. Too bad I don't have a soldering iron handy otherwise I would totally do this. I have too many of these power bricks lying around. As of right now I've got my powerbook at a weird angle just to get the plug to charge my laptop.

[wvjolliffe]

Enhanced strain relief; finish up by adding a small piece of nylon wire tie or similar material between the shrink tube and the outer jacket of the power cable power cable where it exits the plug housing. This will add a little "spine" to your strain relief. YMMV.

[yakcf]

Well, this was certainly a fun, albeit necessary, project. Thank you so much for the instructions - made this much easier than me just making crap up and hoping for the best, lol.

[Helloid]

I have between 4 of these bulky paperweights sitting around. I should at least sacrifice one of the to try the fix. If that doesn't work, it would be nice to have a place to send them where other people can make use of them. The one I am using on the laptop I am typing this with, needs to be tweaked every 15 minutes or so. I usually turn the plug until it lights green again. That cannot be good for the wires. I will be happy when I have a fix or get another computer.

[David Levine]

Where can you obtain the new plug- the power tip? I live in ireland. Thanks.

[Travholt]

My strain relief was broken, and the outer wire was exposed and beginning to break. Now I'm left with a better strain relief than before, and have saved almost a hundred bucks to boot. (Although I bought a cheap soldering iron, but that's an investment!)

[endolith]

I repaired a plug on a different laptop cord yesterday, and used lots of heat shrink tubing for the strain relief. Hot glue inside would probably have been a good idea, though. Wish I'd thought of it.

[rambutan]

Yay, this may just save me $50. The other day I cut mine in half thinking I could figure out how to fix it but then never got around to it. thanks for this :) I'm going to try it!

[Ida]

Hey I just finished this repair and I have never even soldered before!!! It seems to have worked! Thanks