To start thing off I have attached a couple of pictures of recent repairs I have made. Did it make sense to make these repairs? I think so.
Best regards
Roger
Denis McMahon:I have a Philips Philishave shaver, approaching 60 years old. The shaver still works and does not do a bad job of shaving. The problem is the mains lead - the conductors have fractured inside the insulation so power to the shaver is a bit intermittent and one needs to manipulate the lead carefully. The connector bit that plugs into the shaver is of a type one does not see any more. Philips has standardised on the type of connector that is widely used for small appliances like this. I am unable to get hold of this old type anywhere.
If faced with this problem I would probably cut away the plug until I could get to the end of the pins, solder on a new lead and the pot it in Araldite or similar. Some heatshrink to act as strain relief should complete the job.
I have repaired a burnt rectifier stack plate on a 3 MeV electron accelerator with Araldite.
The burnt material was cut away with small round cutter in a Proxxon hand tool (similar to a Dremel)
And rebuilt in several steps with Rapid Araldite
The repair is still holding some years later.
Denis McMahon:I have a Philips Philishave shaver, approaching 60 years old. The shaver still works and does not do a bad job of shaving. The problem is the mains lead - the conductors have fractured inside the insulation so power to the shaver is a bit intermittent and one needs to manipulate the lead carefully. The connector bit that plugs into the shaver is of a type one does not see any more. Philips has standardised on the type of connector that is widely used for small appliances like this. I am unable to get hold of this old type anywhere.
If faced with this problem I would probably cut away the plug until I could get to the end of the pins, solder on a new lead and the pot it in Araldite or similar. Some heatshrink to act as strain relief should complete the job.
I have repaired a burnt rectifier stack plate on a 3 MeV electron accelerator with Araldite.
The burnt material was cut away with small round cutter in a Proxxon hand tool (similar to a Dremel)
And rebuilt in several steps with Rapid Araldite
The repair is still holding some years later.