Mulberry View Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I'm pretty creative, but cannot fathom a way to sort this. It's the remote for my Grandmothers reclining chair, they are over £100 to replace. She needs it to support her legs that are in a very bad way. I have various sizes of heatshrink, including one with adhesive in it. Nothing will go over the plug, but shrink enough. Despite trying, I cannot separate the casing to try to disconnect/shorten the wires. I've tried to cut my adhesive heatshrink lengthways and rejoin it before shrinking it. Nothing has worked so far. It needs to be fairly resilient, I cannot expect my (almost) 90 year old Grandmother to by sympathetic to my repair! Any pearls of wisdom? I'd love to be able to fix this for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Why do you need to use heat shrink? Can you not just wrap it with black electrical tape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone West Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 You could try self amalgam repair tape. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpmiller Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 or one of the malleable plastic putties like Sugru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 "Shrink N Repair" if you can get it. Various tape round / heat up / shrink options: https://hilltop-products.co.uk/heat-shrink/heat-shrink-cable-repair-sleeves-tape.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Temp Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 16 hours ago, Mulberry View said: Despite trying, I cannot separate the casing to try to disconnect/shorten the wires. Have you looked under labels and rubber feet for hidden screws? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Temp Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Tried ebay? Single motor version £55, double motor £75 - still expensive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulberry View Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 On 19/06/2022 at 07:55, Adsibob said: Why do you need to use heat shrink? Can you not just wrap it with black electrical tape? Trouble is, it just doesn't last long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, Mulberry View said: Trouble is, it just doesn't last long. Self amalgamating tape will, used to use it to waterproof cable joints in BT, the trick is to stretch it to half its width and wind it overlapping 50%, I will turn into a solid rubber after a while and stay flexible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I would get a piece of the same size black flex, slit along it's length, remove the cores and use the resultant outer sheath to go over your exposed cores. Then wrap the whole lot in a decent self amalgamating tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulberry View Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 Thanks for your help everyone. I had another go at getting my 21mm adhesive heatshrink over the plug and was successful this time. It didn't shrink enough, but it is more than adequate. Just hope the internals of the remote didn't get cooked during the shrinking process! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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