Repairing a cut electrical wire

Cyrus

Hi all

i mowed over the cable for my electric mower :eek:

whats the best way to reconnect the power cable to the plug end where it cut?

coylemj

Do you mean you broke the cable close to the plug? You could simply snip the cable at the break, buy a new 3-pin plug and wire it up. I assume the old plug was moulded on and can't be removed?

Stoner

coylemj wrote:

Do you mean you broke the cable close to the plug? You could simply snip the cable at the break, buy a new 3-pin plug and wire it up. I assume the old plug was moulded on and can't be removed?

+1

If it's a break in the middle, the garden centres will sell an interconnecter too, the orange ones.

Make sure you connected it the right way around if you get one with pins on one side and holes on the other.

Make sure the safer side is connected to the section of cable with the plug top on the other end of it.

listermint

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ORANGE-CONNECTOR-LAWNMOWER-CATALOGUE-MERCURY/dp/B01L4P0J64

Cordell

You can also cut is short, put a new plug and get a 10m extension. This way when you mow it again you just replace the extension

Calahonda52

bought a few of these in France recently: 7 euro, great job

Cyrus

coylemj wrote: »

Do you mean you broke the cable close to the plug? You could simply snip the cable at the break, buy a new 3-pin plug and wire it up. I assume the old plug was moulded on and can't be removed?

no its close to the mower not to the plug, so id rather repair the cable than fit a plug to the short cable and have to use an extension

Cyrus

Stoner wrote: »

+1

If it's a break in the middle, the garden centres will sell an interconnecter too, the orange ones.

Make sure you connected it the right way around if you get one with pins on one side and holes on the other.

Make sure the safer side is connected to the section of cable with the plug top on the other end of it.

so the side with the holes connected to the plug end and the pins connected to the mower

jmBuildExt

If its not too far away from the mower you could open up the mower's power enclosure...disconnect the broken short cable and discard, then re-wire the long part of the cable back in. Net result is that your cable is a little bit shorter.

I've done it with a hedge trimmer once, I could screw it apart, not sure your mower's power enclosure (around the double switch handle) has screws to undo, it may be moulded.

jack of all

I've done this myself, fortunately the cable was not cut completely but the insulation on one strand was cut and the conductor was exposed. I just purchased a length of heat shrink tube and slid over the damaged area with a good overlap each side of the damage. Worked a treat.

antiskeptic

Cyrus wrote: »

so the side with the holes connected to the plug end and the pins connected to the mower

Indeed. Think what might happen if it was the other way around..