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I have three 60w magsafe 1 power adapters. Two of them are fully original (including the cables) and one has a non original wire wit L connector replaced. It’s a well known fact that those replacement cables with L connectors do not work properly, the charging indicator is always green (even when the battery is being charged) and the overcharge protection doesn’t work. But on the other hand, the quality of the unoriginal replacement wire is a hundred times better than the Apple original, because apple’s wires crack very fast. Mine actually cracked like a year after I bought it new from one of those apple shops. So I want to disassemble the original Apple L connector and solder it to the unoriginal cable. I don’t mind cutting off the replacement L connector, as it is of no use for me, because when I use it with my Macbook pro 13” late 2011, the battery gets hot, and when I used it with my Macbook white mid 2009, the battery swelled and now when I use that MB 2009 with the unoriginal cable, with no battery, it won’t even turn on (it does turn on when used with fully original power adapter). So… disassemble an original magsafe L connectror and solder it to another wire. How do I do that? In fact the problem is more about disassembling the L connector, because I do know how to solder things.

The design of the L connector makes it impossible to re-use. The best you can do is reverse engineer the parts that make up the connector and manufacture your own if you want the L type. The straight-on connector could have some of its parts reused, but again the molded plastic would need to be emulated somehow. Keep in mind this is a hot extrusion molded shell. Here’s a breakdown Teardown and exploration of Apple’s Magsafe connector and do keep in mind the cheap knock-offs are not safe for you or your system! Lacking safety features, cheap MacBook chargers create big sparks We found the way the cable was handled was the biggest factor on wear or cracking. A company I once worked at had over 400 MacBook Pro’s. We glued down the wings so they wouldn’t get used and we trained our users to be sailers ;-} on how to coil a rope and how to handle cables in general. So become a sailer! How to Coil a Rope for Sailing then use velcro wire ties