Repair Boss power supply cable

Elijah-Baley

Elijah-Baley

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Hello guys.
I have this old Boss power supply. It's been very good for years to supply in an easily way some pedals in daisy chain without any issue.
But the cable is damaged, now. Any idea or trick about how I can to repair it?
I cant open up the chassis because the uncommon hexagonal screws!

Thanks!
 

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Really the best way would be to open it up, pull the cable through into the enclosure and chop off the chewed up bit so you can resolder fresh bits to the inside or however it's secured. Most electronics stores or maybe even autoparts stores should have the right screwdriver.

I mainly use pedal power supplies now. The crappy power cables wear out quickly unless they're secured to the board. I often have one cable loose so I can try out new builds easily and those cables only seem to last 6 months or so before becoming unreliable. Although I have a couple of Japanese Ibanez 9V wall warts from the '80s which are still going strong. The cable is much stronger and well molded.
 
I did what I couldn't do for years. I used a pliers for the screws, and I open the PSU up! :oops:
So I have to decided how I can fix it.
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I could cut the wire, remove necessarily the strain relief, and resolder the wires again, isolating the soldering with some heatshrink tube.
Unfortunately, without the strain relief the cable won't be so assured to the PSU like before.

I could try to save part of the strain relief, but I'm not sure if that is possibile, the cable and the strain relief is all in one.

Some advice?
 
Cut relief part in half, scrape cord channel clean and glue it back together over a new cord. Or use not-so-approved way with a knot relief mummified in heatshrink flavored with some hot glue.

Guess safest would be a clamping relief, that’s my official recommendation. :rolleyes:
 
Excuse me, what do you mean with "adapter"? A new PSU? I did it immediately, after the wire broken.

But seen the problem is just the cable, and this PSU is always been a very good silent one, I would like to repair it. :)
 
Elijah-Baley said:
Excuse me, what do you mean with "adapter"? A new PSU? I did it immediately, after the wire broken.

But seen the problem is just the cable, and this PSU is always been a very good silent one, I would like to repair it. :)
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Makes sense. No judgement, I just meant for me. I have very little patience for stuff like that.
 
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