carryout power cord
We have a 3 year old winegard carryout and just ordered our 3rd power cord - is there any alternative for the blankety blank plug that just ceases to work?
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Bill.Satellite wrote:Sounds like a bad strain relief on the original, so tugging on the wire breaks the internal connection? Shoe-goo is pretty strong, stiff but flexible, and waterproof - perhaps coating a few inches of cable, then onto the body of the connector would help.
The above picture is NOT the connection used in his 3 year old Carryout. That is the updated "good" power connector and does not suffer from the problems that nearly everyone with the OP's original power cord suffers. Unfortunately, the new good power connector is not a direct replacement for the old style so you have to keep buying new cords over and over or you have to ensure that you never pull on the cord itself while trying to unplug the cord. It's not an easy task but it can be done.
Shoe-goo is a Styrene-butadiene copolymer. It's great stuff, IMHO. It's like a flexible version of JBWeld/PC-7, which you don't have to mix. I keep it in my tool kit since it works well for lots of things.
