Widget for joining 3-core mains flex

It is the best but sometimes it is too long a job to open up the appliance and to attach the new flex cores because of the way user- unfriendly way in which the appliance has been designed.

ISTR there was a time when the different twists had their own names. Maybe they still do.

Wasn't something like "Western Roll" one such name???

Hey, are you related to the Coleman company? :) I just bought a 21 volt cordless drill from Coleman.?

P.S. Can some one tell me what a flex is?

Coleman is an old AMERICAN company that made gasoline lanterns and camping gear. Good luck with that drill. I was given several new 18 and

Are you really that dense? It is a British term for flexible line cords. It has been discussed countless times on the electronics and electrical engineering newsgroups.

well, I'm not British and I have never heard of the term "FLEX".. Here we have different names, maybe not the correct name but different never the less.

SJO, Rubber cord, zip cord, curly cord and yes FLexible cord I can comprehend, but when using the terms "FLEX" with out cord or what ever afterwards kind of throws me. For all I know you could have been talking about "GreenField", BX, BC, Seal Tight, what ever....

Cabtyre.

Then a regular extension cord will work fine.

I did write "normal" - which you too seem to think is inadequate, as you use adhesive heatshrink.

Whether it will go on the drum neatly depends on the size of the cable and the drum.

I've used similar techniques to the one you mention where cable replacement was impractical, eg re-joining the command and power cable of a tethered submersible. That has been good enough to survive a few weeks of fairly deep salt water immersion, etc. But the repair only ever lasted a few weeks, no matter how carefully it was done. The cable alarm would inevitably sound and the fault was inevitably at the join.. So no way was it as good as the original cable, unjoined.

I don't know if the safety break was a regulatory requirement, although it was pretty universal. Does your Bosch have active breaking (stops dead when you release the handle)? I guess that would do the same thing, although the active breaking on two lawnmowers I have both stopped working after a couple of years, and now the blades just spin down under their own momentum when the trigger is released.

Yes it will but it s clumsy and inconvenient to get out each time!

I have been doing it for years too (without the heatshrink).

I am genuinely quite surprised that there are so many posts worrying quite deeply about safety.

Of course what I want to do is less good than having a single piece of flex. But this is not exactly HIGH risk in the circumstances I want to use it the appliances in.

That would be active braking.

break =/= brake

Graham

Judging from his words, in Andrew's case it does appear that the brake had been actively breaking...

Then stop bodging things and install a proper, permanent socket where it is needed.

Owain

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:21:07 +0100, Coleman mused:

Make the join at the end near to the appliance so it's not dragged around corners all the time.

You are a d*****ad. What part of "I'm sorry sir. Due to your haphazard electrical 'repairs' your insurance does not cover the total loss of your home" did you fail to understand?

Can you give some examples of this in the UK? It would be very difficult to prove in a court of law.

Yes.

Not sure that's relevant -- I've never seen a [UK] policy which excludes this anyway. Actually, policies often explicitly include cover for DIY accidents.