so we have a bit of a problem I'll
choose my macbook pro last night like
always and I was going to use it again
this morning for various reasons and to
my surprise the battery is that like I
don't know 15% although it was plugged
in all night well then I also noticed
that the little light that's supposed to
come on on this the little MagSafe part
right there
wasn't on it's supposed to be orange
when is charging green when it's charged
when it's already charged or something
like that there were no lights on at all
so I did a little bit more investigating
to see what the main problem was and go
figure my charger is completely severed
from this to this so take a look here as
you can see the wires are completely
split and that is all the way around the
cable so you'll see the white part
inside that's kind of keeping this thing
together
that's one wire the wires that come
along the outside are another wire I'm
guessing once a Power one's a ground or
something of that nature so today we're
gonna go down to the garage and fix it I
first have to see if I have the
available tools the main one being a
soldering iron I know I've had one at
one point but not sure where it is at
this date and time so let's go find out
you know as I go to gather all of the
tools in order to get this done I
realized I forgot to mention why don't I
just buy a brand new charger well
there's many reasons for that one is
when something's broke I like to fix it
instead of throw it away and get a new
one
afterall this laptop is 6 years old and
it's only running that strong because I
continually fix it and make it better
one step at a time but also because I
went on the Apple website and went on
Amazon I went anywhere that sells a
MagSafe one Apple brand charger I don't
really want to get an off-brand and
they're about $80 sure I can go buy a
new one right now but if I have one
right here that just you know the wires
need to be
did I might as well try a medical trying
to fix it if I mess it up then I mess it
up and I have to buy a new one but at
least I can say I tried and if I succeed
I saved myself 80 bucks and I'm pretty
sure I have all the tools I just need to
find that pesky soldering I still can't
find it all right so I think I'm ready
to go
pliers wire strippers good wire cutters
small screwdriver slightly bigger
screwdriver razor blade and solderless
connectors I can explain all right so
here's the deal I went to go find my
solder gun obviously couldn't find it so
then what's the next best thing I could
use electrical tape to put together or
from the times I used to input or
install my friend stereos my friends
subwoofers a lot of the times I would
use wire connectors that's what these
are and it just so happens to say
solderless connectors cuz well you don't
need a solder gun in order to apply
these obviously this is just essentially
a way to get out of using a soldering
iron
most of these are our connectors in the
sense of you put the wire in here and
then it connects to the metal inside and
then you apply this side and connect it
to a terminal however I need something a
little bit more like this this is a
connector in the sense that you put both
wires in one side and they connect well
I think there's metal inside there as
well but basic idea is that the wires
are connected to one another touching
one another and touching the metal on
there and I get interrupted by a phone
call but anyways that's the connector I
need alright so let's get on with it
first I out well I guess I ought to get
down to like normal human height so I
can fit the actual workbench in my face
in frame this is really uncomfortable
but uh first I don't need this part
because this works perfectly fine it's
just an extension of the actual charger
yeah it's this part now we're left with
the broken piece and this adapter right
here which now second part we need to
take apart hello hello can you hear me
can you see me good alright now that
were actually in the real process this
is a real step
and that is use the pliers to pry this
apart from this from this side and this
side so let me get to it all right
I'm actually going to use the vise grip
in just vise grip this part in
that was actually a good thing that was
supposed to happen and I'm not just
saying that see told you and like I've
mentioned this is already broken so it
doesn't really matter to me if I did tit
up or if I break it a little bit more
than it already is
because if it doesn't work then it's
like essentially completely useless so
this isn't able to go back in what do I
care I just wanted to be able to charge
my laptop because right now it's a giant
paperweight all right now on to step
number two now that I have this side
pride pride apart properly I need to
make sure it goes all the way around and
this is a little bit different because
this they say use a heat gun by they're
just mean like online tutorials and
stuff but uh I am almost there so I'm
going to throw this screwdriver and here
in the little groove to see if I can get
it apart like pulling it hard but not
pulling it hard because I don't want it
to break I'm not trying to leverage it
out I'm trying to like pull it like that
instead of like that but I don't know I
don't know what to do
huh actually you know it I think I just
need access it may be a little bit more
difficult I may end up taking this whole
thing off anyway but since I can get it
this far out and kind of keep it clamped
out like that
I just need access to this black hold on
I don't know if you can see that too
this black in this white wire because
like I mentioned before there are two
wires in here the outside goes to the
black the inside goes to the white so
that's all I need and what I say next
you're going to be a little bit confused
by I need to cut this off all right so
I'm using my wire cutters to cut it as
close as possible to the white boom and
then cut this side as close as possible
I actually really doesn't matter boom
because I want to end up cutting a lot
of this off anyway because it's uh it's
not good wire at that point but here it
looks pretty good now I just have to
strip the wire but now what I must do is
get the wire out of this because this
needs to be reused or at least I'd like
for it to be and that is where the
pliers come in again I hope I hope I
could just lay up onto this maybe I
should have left a little bit more wire
on there and try to rip it out maybe I
should have thought this through before
I cut it oh well there goes the white
one done deal and then the black one not
so sure that's going to be as easy
actually if it's this hard to get this
out there's no way I'm going to be able
to get a wire back in this little tiny
hole so maybe I just need to drill it
maybe I just need to take a drill bit
drill down through this into here I'd
still like to get the wire out though
yep that's exactly what I'm gonna do I'm
gonna take this drill bit well take out
that drill bit first
there this drill bit and the drill
through this in the vise not too hard so
it doesn't break all the way and get
drilling
yep good to go all right so where we are
now that I got that big chunk out of the
middle of this I also had to get this
plaster rubber piece out of the middle
and you guys saw me drill that out a
little bit and then I have to put this
wire all the way through and voila
so now I have this piece around or yeah
around this wire now I have to strip
this wire and the wires in the adapter
and there's two wires in here two wires
in here and they had to be connected all
right so we have wire strippers we have
the wires that need to be stripped so
let's get to work all right so now that
these wires are stripped the white goes
to the white the black goes to the black
and well at that point I should be good
to go just maybe a little bit electric
electrical tape heat shrink like I
mentioned and then we're going to put
this bad boy back together all right
that was a bit of a hassle and it's
pretty Jay rigged up but uh we're gonna
see if this works I'm just gonna put it
back together at this point and cross my
fingers and pray to God that it uh
that it charged my laptop otherwise this
was a big waste of time and I had to
spend $80 anyway all right now we're
here we have my laptop and we're going
to test this charger right here actually
works and if you're wondering I'm still
out in the garage testing this instead
of up in my office because if a fire
happens let's just say I'd rather it
happen next to this nice fire
extinguisher here rather than up in my
office all right I want to do it on this
table to give you guys a little bit
better angle to see if this lights up
reinserted plugged in
and the moment of truth it works yes now
I have the working laptop again I still
have to be wary of this it's okay if
it's orange green orange that's good
case you can't see it too well it's
right here and it works oh my gosh
that's a savings of $80 feels good when
you work on something and it actually
comes to fruition like I didn't know if
this was gonna work in the end I may
have just been wasting all this time and
had to end up spending that $80 anyway
but it ended up working and if you know
me at all I love saving money so that's
just a plus now I'm back to having a
working laptop and any work that I
needed to do well my laptop is set up on
my PC behind me can actually get done
but at the sake of making this sound
very philosophical or whatever word
works properly in that sentence if
something's broke whether it's a
relationship whether it's a computer
charger or whether it's something else
and there's a potential fixing it try to
fix it I mean I try to take that moral
into all aspects of life a computer
charger stops working or if my hard disk
drive on my laptop isn't efficient
enough I had replaced that with an SSD I
make sure that my computer charger works
again I mean all you can do is try if it
didn't work then I had to buy something
but I knew in the back of my head that I
tried to fix it and that could be taken
over to something like a job if you hate
your job figure out why you hate it if
you're in a relationship that isn't
working properly figure out why and then
try to fix it if it doesn't fix that's
okay but at least you can go to bed at
night knowing that you tried to fix your
computer or that you tried to fix your
relationship or you tried to fix your
job I think that needs to be taught to a
lot of people because they just tend to
throw things away when they quit working
and buy something or go get something
new so that's the moral philosophical
talk for today if it's broke at least
try to fix it and if it ain't broke
don't fix it you know how this thing
goes but anyways I hope I made this
entertaining for you guys I hope you
learned something especially for those
of you who have a MacBook Pro and you
charge your quits working try to figure
out why quits working I'm sure you can
fix it on your own instead of spending
80 dollars on a new one but that's it
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