Our player piano tech has a pretty nice year or so old macbook pro, and today he happened to snag the power cord just right where it ripped mostly out of the brick, as it had kind of wrapped around a table leg
freaking out, I was like "so order another", which he did but he needed this computer over the entire weekend for a recording session he was on, and it only was reporting 10 min of battery life left, so I gave him my patented wicked look and said "hang on a min", and dashed out to my car
returning in hand with ... A electric hot knife, and my spare/old soldering iron (what? you dont keep a hot knife and soldering iron in your trunk? phht, noobs), anyway I cut the power brick along its seams with the hot knife, popped that bugger open, removed the old wire leads, cut the cord soldered it back, put it back in its shell and wrapped it up in duct tape :lol:
its ugly, but it works just fine (and there is a nice glossy new one on its way next week so who cares for the future) and someone owes me lunch ;D
I took a couple pic's but my celphone is so crappy all you can see is a white blob in light bloom
freaking out, I was like "so order another", which he did but he needed this computer over the entire weekend for a recording session he was on, and it only was reporting 10 min of battery life left, so I gave him my patented wicked look and said "hang on a min", and dashed out to my car
returning in hand with ... A electric hot knife, and my spare/old soldering iron (what? you dont keep a hot knife and soldering iron in your trunk? phht, noobs), anyway I cut the power brick along its seams with the hot knife, popped that bugger open, removed the old wire leads, cut the cord soldered it back, put it back in its shell and wrapped it up in duct tape :lol:
its ugly, but it works just fine (and there is a nice glossy new one on its way next week so who cares for the future) and someone owes me lunch ;D
I took a couple pic's but my celphone is so crappy all you can see is a white blob in light bloom