Weatherlawyer wrote:
Tim Downie wrote:

Once again I've got problems with the DC power socket on a laptop.

Buy a secondhand docking station.

Happened to me a few years ago. I learned the hard way that to disconnect a
laptop from it's power lead, you split the lead at the power brick and leave
the plug in the laptop socket, every time!

Inconvenient but very, very cheap!

Dennis.