Mike Turner
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- Laurinburg NC
I noticed the previous owner had put a longer orange drop cord on it.I was checking it out and saw a bad spot in the wire so I wanted to cut that place out and wire it back.The place was near where it goes to the switch..I untaped what previous owner had done and saw a piece of the ground had a naked place on it .It had tape on it..The ground wire from the motor and cord was soldered together together.The neutral wire from the motor and drop cord was soldered together also. The hot was broken through the switch to turn it on and off..
When I cut the bad place out I will have to reconnect these back together..I dont want to buy a soldering iron for this one time use and was thinking about using wire nuts for connecting the ground wires and doing the same on the neutral leads also.I thought about using sta-cons and could do that also.Whatever I would do I would then tape it all up good and secure. What would you guys do? I have had some electrical...enough to understand basic wire etc. All is working good w/o any problems I just want to make this safer.
When I cut the bad place out I will have to reconnect these back together..I dont want to buy a soldering iron for this one time use and was thinking about using wire nuts for connecting the ground wires and doing the same on the neutral leads also.I thought about using sta-cons and could do that also.Whatever I would do I would then tape it all up good and secure. What would you guys do? I have had some electrical...enough to understand basic wire etc. All is working good w/o any problems I just want to make this safer.