[ltp] power supply DC cords breaks?

[Niel Lambrechts]

Dean Hedin wrote:

> In the time you wasted typing about it you could haved grabed an old 
> extension cord
> shrink tube, and a soldering iron and fixed the situation.
>
> I can't count how many times I have repaired a cord of some type of 
> electronic equipment. If I were to guess it would be in the many 
> hundreds. Wall warts & laptop supplies make up a good portion of that 
> number.
>
> Think IBM has a quality control issue?  Well maybe you should complain 
> to UL,  they approved the supply for your consumption.
>
> Maybe IBM will send you a new supply.  Do you really want to wait that 
> long?
>
> Power cords  fray over time.  It's just a fact of life. Deal with it 
> and move on.


6 months is hardly "over time". My country's currency is 6 times weaker 
than the US, which makes it kind of a highly expensive piece of 
equipment. (like a Rotel hi-fi)

At this price, the only thing I feel like soldering is an IBM engineer. :-p

-Niel