How To Repair Outdoor Extension Cord

Has anyone other than me been out in the yard trimming bushes when of a sudden your hedge trimmer stops working and you idea you bankrupt something? Afterwards doing some investigating I realized I had cutting clear through my extension cord. Bummer.

Instead of dumping information technology in the trash, I'1000 going to show you how to get your cord stock-still back upwardly and fix to get back to powering all these tools that we have no room for.

Extension cords can exist expensive, especially long ones or ones for outdoors, so if I tin can save it and relieve a few dollars I'1000 going to do my best to do that. I had quite a few jobs when I was growing up so I've picked things upwardly here and at that place, and I call up that when a wire or cables get cut you lot can splice them and put them back together.

However, yous always desire to join the same colored wires back together or you'll blow the breaker once again or something worse, like create sparks that can ultimately create a fire.

Oh, and I nearly forgot, you'll want to cheque your fuse box and flip the breaker that tripped to off back to on.

And then let's motion onto the bodily job of putting it back together and operational. You'll only need a couple of supplies that you probably already have on manus.

Supplies needed

electrical tape
wire cutters

You tin find electric record in various colors, and I'd go with the ane closest to the color of the extension cord you're working on.

Before y'all start: unplug the extension cord! I know, this seems obvious, but double bank check earlier you begin.

Step one: Cut each of the cord ends to get a make clean border.

Stride two: Next, cutting back each of the string ends about one.5 inches and so that all three wires are exposed.

Step 3: From at that place, cut off about 1 inch of each colored cablevision to betrayal the copper wire. After yous have all 3 copper wires exposed then twist each individual wire to tighten the strand.

Step 4: When yous have each of the three wires on both cable ends stripped then marry each wire to the same color on the other cord and twist them together tightly.

Step 5: Later twisting the wires together, grab your electrical tape. Wrap the tape effectually each wire segment until they are completely covered.

Not doing this could effect in the wires touching each other and creating a spark and throwing your billow or fifty-fifty perhaps starting a fire.

Step 6: Now that y'all have all the wires together and completely taped individually, you tin now lay the wires confronting the body of the string and record those against it every bit tightly equally possible so information technology looks nice and equally make clean every bit possible.