Hey everyone Garageking here today I'm going to do a non-automotive video I'm going to
show you how to fix your charging cable on your Apple computer, I use an apple for
all my editing everyone knows these go bad so here's the cord you can see it's
just awful and if we follow the cord down to here we can see this side is
actually okay so that's good now we don't have to test our cord because as
you can see there put it in the shadow and you can see the light is on so we know
it's working it's just the insulation on the outside is all cracked but the cord
might stop working if it keeps wiggling like this so what I'm gonna try to do is
just cut all this off and then put some heat shrink over there if we can get it
there just to make it stronger and then worst-case scenario if it all goes south
I did order a new cord so here's my backup cord just in case we do need it i
order this online this goes into the brick park should be no stranger to you
all. This is what the cord looks like hopefully I don't have to take the
brick apart and actually solder this new piece in I'm really hoping I don't so
let's heat shrink the existing cord and hopefully that works and we don't have
to use this. Close up of our cord here you can see there's the steel inside
it's slowly coming apart so what I want to do is just get rid of this excess
part here we're gonna have to either pull it, and cut it off let me see if I can
just cut some of it off now we don't want to cut the actual cord, but there we
go we can just snip off the excess and just
trim it okay so we have six millimetre what we're gonna do is we are going to cut it
and then just try to do our resizing thing now this should stretch it a
little bit more because the bigger heat shrink tubing you go the the thicker the
wall is so we're just gonna try to stretch this one out. Now double wall
might even work better but it might be harder to stretch because this is just
single wall heat shrink tubing
there we go I can see what I've done you can see it's actually already over right
there we just gotta keep working it on and then we'll see how much it actually
shrinks down if is even worth it or not
there we go now what we're gonna do is we're gonna heat this one up slowly and
we're going to see how much it's gonna shrink back down if anything too to help
so let's see let's get out our heat gun
in there you can see it actually it's pretty good now what I want to do is put
another one because this one's just too thin so if I can slide another one over
it'll get even tighter and then I'll back the new one up to there so yeah
let's put another one on so I'm doing the next one you can see as I slide it
up it's easier and easier to to do because the pliers get wider and wider
so it stretches it, the other thing I noticed is the first one that I've put
on you can see it's fairly long I was lucky I'm doing another one right here
and it's a bit shorter and it's quite a bit easier to work with so I'm almost
wondering if it's easier to work in shorter pieces and then just do multiple
pieces because really your laptop, it's not like it's going underwater or
anything, the heat shrink is just preventing the hose from bending so
that's that's the biggest thing so it might be easier just to work into
shorter pieces so I'm gonna try this this is a bit of a shorter piece now
still the same six millimeter diameter tubing and then at the end once I get a
few of these on I'll probably take seven mil because that's even bigger it'll be
easier to work with and then maybe I'll just cover the whole thing and we'll see
how that works out and this one here I rushed it a bit I split it but at the
same time I was able to at least.... There we go we can pull it over so that's good
now with this we can either choose just to cut it off but you
know what it's on there anyway it's just gonna shrink down it doesn't really
matter so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put this one right here and what that'll
do is it's gonna just make it a little more thicker. I want this this part to be
thicker so when I finally put the six or maybe I'll even go to eight
mil on the end, I want this diameter to be bigger so these are the hard ones
we're just basically building it up that's all we're gonna do so we're gonna
shrink this one down right now and there we go no we have our second one put on
alright so I got a few pieces on to sort of build it up you can see how they
split but it didn't really matter because as long as they're on here
building it up that's what counts because then I'm gonna put the new
bigger piece on now unfortunately I didn't have a seven mil so I'm going to
use an eight because these ones are six mil so I really wanted to go only one
millimeter but I'll use the eight and let's see how it works I mean worst case
scenario I mean I was gonna just get rid of this thing anyway so let's do it for
a little science experiment so let's take our 8 millimeter
all right so we are all done and if we take a look
we can see we have a gap there there you go you can see we have a bit of a gap
there but that's okay because we actually reinforced it with
the six millimeter in here so it's not gonna bend so this extension here that
little bit of a gap that's fine it's still gonna prevent it from bending and
then up here you can see it's nice and tight
the way it crimped on nice and tight so anyway let's go plug it into the
computer and see if it works. Okay here's our moment here let's see and I know it's
kind of scratched up there that was from using the screwdriver but hey let's see
if it works there we go and it is working so that's awesome and now our
cord is repaired to it and we'll get a little bit more life out of it
awesome hopefully you've enjoyed this video I know it wasn't a car video but
it was something different and I had to fix my laptop so I thought maybe you
know do this and share it with you guys okay have a good one
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