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On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:39:54 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

On 26/09/2019 23:29, John Kenyon wrote:

Also the thing has a sensible strain relief where the cable emerges -
the cable is easily threaded through. The thing is the antithesis of
Apple design - cheap and completely repairable (if you can get the
sodding cable...)


It doesn't have to be cotton covered, heat resistant silicon cable
should be fine, immersion heater cable is temperature resistant and
fairly flexible too.


Silicon would be very inflexible.

Silicone would be good though.



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