Fix a broken power adapter tip yourself

Those pesky power adapters. If the cord isn't coming out of the casing, the little tip that plugs into your laptop is snapping off. What are you supposed to do at $90US a pop? Get a new one? Heck, no. Fix it yourself!

Leander at the Cult of Mac blog figured out, after much trial and error, how to fix the broken tip issue. When the tip of his adapter broke off inside the thing, he wasn't sure what to do. After finding this article at Macintouch, he was inspired. By placing a small amount of crazy glue to a thin object like a toothpick or a Q-tip, he could grab and pull the broken piece out. However, it did not go as planned:

"It didn't work, despite several close calls, and all I managed was to make myself purple with rage and gum up the power port with dried super glue." As a final, desperate attempt he shaped a paperclip into a hook and managed to get it underneath the small pin and pop it back up into place. Now everything is working fine and Leander saved himself $90. Plus, he learned a valuable lesson: "At first I was ginger, but after half-an-hour, I just started pulling and yanking at it. This worked — amazing what you achieve when you don't give a #@!*.

Truer words have never been spoken.