Does your Macbook adapter plug wire break? • Hacker News Board

Re: Does your Macbook adapter plug wire break?

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Post by calbear81 » Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 10:53 PM UTC

Have had one fray over 4 years of usage. I generally find that they are more prone to fray if:

- You bend the cable at an angle when sitting it down like against the wall putting more pressure at the bend point.

- You treat magsafe as "safe for me to pull out using the wire" which is not correct. Magsafe is more of a safety in case you accidentally trip over the wire, you should otherwise pull at the plug piece and not the cable.

Re: Does your Macbook adapter plug wire break?

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Post by _raul » Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 11:00 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #20

_raul wrote: post #5

After fixing a couple of adapters I started protecting them with Sugru: https://sugru.com Works like a charm.

Wow, that looks pretty interesting. Is there any downside (ignoring cost)?

The only downside I've found is visual: Sugru includes some tips to give it a good-looking aspect, but of course it won't look as cool as if it wasn't there. Still, I'm very happy with it.

I've read some comments about Sugru not being flexible: in my experience it's been very flexible and durable and will keep using it for every new Apple adapter I buy.