Geoff Berrow wrote:
Got an iffy cable on my stepdaughter's straighteners and I just wondered
if anyone her had taken a pair apart? There are two small screws at the
hinge end which are get-at-able and others next to the plates for which
you'd need a small right angled driver to get at.

It's a pretty straightforward replace cable job but I don't want to ham
fistedly make matters worse.

I would do one of three things:

If they are not very old, take them back and ask for replacement. If you
don't consider this reasonable or the supplier won't play, tough.

Buy some new ones.

Persuade her that straight hair is so last year.

Then:

Throw the old ones away (appropriately).

If you search around, you will find that many adverts state "new, more
durable cable" and such like. This is because some models were fitted
with crap cables. This has been the subject of several "investigations"
(maybe Watchdog, maybe magazines/newspapers, maybe even official bodies).

I would not risk fitting an inappropriate cable or missing an important
aspect of the fitting or a replacement part or whatever in something
that is already inherently at the fragile end of the scale.

--
Rod

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