how to fix a broken macbook or macbook pro charger

caveat: I know nothing about electricity, wires or anything. This may be dangerous. Fires/electrocution/whathaveyou.

Here is the broken charger. The cord consists of an copper inner wire with a plastic sheath and a silver wire that wraps around the middle cable. In this case the outer plastic is severed. the silver wire is discontinuous and the inner copper wire is exposed.

I cut off the outer plastic with a razor blade and then peeled the silver wire back. you can see the damage inner wire.

I repaired the inner layer with electrical tape. I also cut a portion of speaker cable to bridge the gap in the outer silver wire.

I intertwined the speaker wire with the outer wire. finally taping up the remaining exposed wire.

Preventing a MacBook charger from breaking

I have since figured out how to fix a broken macbook charger. Instructions here.



If there is anything that Apple does worse then making their products affordable it is building chargers that last.There were two points at which the old charger would break.

I went through two chargers on my old powerbook g4. Both places slowly lost the connection. I would bend them to make it and eventually they failed. I eventually bought an off brand one that was a little better and alot cheaper.

So I told myself that this time would be different. with my new MacBook I am using a piece of string wrapped tight around the cord. I am doing this under the assumption that the charger breaks because the cord is pulled to to tight an angle and this string will allow for a more gentle bend.

Any thoughts?



Now what I really want to know is how to fix macbook or powerbook chargers. I am sure there are some that could be fixed. See link in comment section