I detest captive leads
I detest captive leads, as well as the job of removing them and fitting IEC sockets. I recently bought another preamp and changing the dangling captive mains cord to take an IEC socket was the first job I did yesterday to make the equipment more user-friendly, but the job still remains a fag to do.
On the pic below, you can see the finished job. Where the socket goes, was already a little cover plate and the holes for the cover's selftapping screws matched that of the new IEC socket, but the opening was too small.
I don't really want to use drilling or a powerfile to cut the socket's opening due to steel filings into the works. I checked my tools and found a hand nibbler which quickly did the cutting required.
So I made up a new coverplate and milled the IEC pattern hole and only needed to do a small amount of nibbling on the pre's case. A bit of quick-drying etch primer on the new cover plate and the job was done. For the old captive cord's hole, I turned up a plastic plug.
I would have liked to use a fused socket but space was too limited.
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