I started to work throught some basic repair jobs. One was to fix some plastic parts of my fridge that needed sticking back together. So out with the hot glue gun – though it hadn’t been used in over 30 years.. and BANG. A loud crack, and flash, and the hairs on my arm singed as the live and neutral had shorted at the strain releif. My own fault as I was aware the outer insulation was perishing.
To fix it, I found an unused lead that had the plug for another country. Cut off that plug, replacing with the one from the glue gun, and a fresh fuse. Then to actually install the cable. The case was made up of two plastic halves, extremely tightly clipped together. They suffered some cosmetic damager as I pried them apart.
There is no switch. If it is plugged in it is on. From this point onwards it was a simple case of cutting the old cable out and retaining the strain releif, then soldering in the new cable and insulating with heat-shrink. The most difficult part was needing two pairs of hands to close the unit back together with spring of the glue loader keep hopping out of position.
