Recently, I broke the wire of my wire
cutter
and I wanted to first to show you how I
broke it and then I’m gonna show you how
I’ve replaced it
you see I was about to cut this soap and
as you can see I’m tightening
the wire right now, I gave it a few turns
already and then I went away
and decided to do something I don't
remember what,
but when I came back I tightened it some
more
until it snapped
so if you hear that noise, that was the
noise of the wire
breaking apart because obviously it
had too much tension
from me twisting and twisting that twice
so I try to
follow the wire alone from the point
where it is inserted in the
guitar tuner to the other side of the
cutter where it's put together
so I had to remove the
screw on that side which has its own
handle
so it's actually very easy to do. it was
just a matter of pulling that,
removing the washer and then removing
the wood piece to see
how the wire is assembled on that side
when I pull it, I realize that it has
like a small
spacer metal bead that is what keeps it
from
fitting through the hole in the wood
here I have the replacement
wire that came with the cutter and it's
two pieces of wire
it's already wrapped around this small
golden ring and then I think I’m
supposed to use the stopper bead
or this spacer bit really so that it
will
go into this portion and it will pretty
much
stop the wire from going through
I’m not going to use the replacement
wire that came with the cutter just now
because first I want to experiment and
see if any other
wire would work I have here some
Stainless
steel wire, this is of a thicker
thickness than the one that came with
the cutter
and I want to see if it works; before
this I experimented replacing it with a
thinner wire
and that didn't work but I don't have
the exact
same gauge so I’m just going to see if
this works
I’m going to cut a portion of it; it's
important when you work
with wire if you're going to be cutting
it
that you wear eye protection because it
can bounce
and you don't want it to scratch your
eyes
or your face for that matter I’m gonna
look for
something similar to this
to wrap it around
I have here some spacers but they're
smaller
oh but I think one of these will work
like this other spacer, I think that
might work
so I’m just gonna fit this through the
bead
and fold it over
I’m not sure if this wire is gonna work
because it's so thick that it's even
hard to
manipulate
I’m going to try and tighten this
I need another set of pliers
so while I hold this
with the other pliers I’m just twisting
it
when you cut wire it's a good idea to
cover
the part that's going to possibly fly
off with your hand
that way it will not go flying off but
it will stay
in your hand preventing a possible
accident
I did have to make some additional
adjustments to tighten that loop
and then I fed the spacer bead that's
going to
serve as a stopper
okay I’m going to fill it
through here
because I’m using a thicker wire I’m
having trouble making it go through this
in the part
that is wrapped around this wire
is 20 gauge which is about
0.8 millimeters
so I had to trim that end that was
sticking out and also
tighten it with the nose pliers
rather needle nose pliers
so now I’m going to fit the wire through
the opposite hole
in the wood and then I noticed that
there were some kinks
in the wire, it being thicker and also more
stiff
than a guitar wire so I tried to
straighten that out or work them out
by holding the wire on one hand and then
just passing the needle nose pliers
through
to make it more smooth or straight
once that was completed I just had to
fill it through the hole in the guitar
tuner
Peg, it has a small hole through the
middle and it doesn't matter whether…
I tried it both ways fitting it through the
top or the bottom and it really didn't
matter because
the direction of the hole changes as you
turn it in
and what I tried to do then was just to
tightly wrap around the knob with my
fingers and then I also
used the needle nose pliers to pull on
It, make sure that it was very tight
and in the end it looked like this
finally I replaced the arm into the soap
cutter and gave it a try
and I’m happy to report that it did work
it has now been two months since I
replaced
uh the wire in the soap cutter and so far
it has worked
great I have made sure not to tighten it
too much because I don't want it to
break
but it seems to do the work
anyway I hope this was helpful and I’ll
see you next week
bye
