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The image below also shows the inners of the plastic half, with some glue still sticking to it. Here is what you need: (i) A small flat-head screw-driver, (ii) A hammer, (iii) A sharp razor blade, or wire peeler, and (iv) a soldering gun. Even worse, its not merely push-fit, it is super-glued together making it harder to take apart. There are no screws and I had to pry it apart using a screw-driver and a hammer. It seems, Apple never meant for these things to be opened. The outer one is Ground, and the inner one is 24.5V, see below: It turns out that its actually a very thin coax, which makes it a bit harder to peel, separate, and solder. For the one with the burnt/snagged cable I meant to cut out the burnt part and solder it back again.īut there were some more complications. So, I took the good end from the smoked one, to replace the broken one. Iii) The whole thing smokes, and thats the end of it. Ii) The pin at the DC end drops out or gets bent In fact so close, that the we have to open the box to solder the wires, after cutting out the burnt part.
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This snag usually develops very close to where the DC (thinner wire) comes out of the power adapter. I) There is a snag in the wire, and it shorts itself, burning out at the snag. This is obviously not a new problem as I found out from an old blogpost. 2006, and we would need to buy three new ones, $79 each. After calling Apple I found out that the (3 year extended Apple Support) warranties had run out in Nov. We have several macs in our group and suddenly 3 of them went kaput one after the other. All products seem to know when their warranties are going to run out ), unfortunately even Apple Products.