Install a toggle switch on any cord! A Repair to Remember

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In this video you’ll learn how to install a toggle switch on any electric lamp, fan, or small appliance. You don’t need expensive tools, so even if this is the first electrical project you’ve ever undertaken, you’ll develop a lifelong skill that’ll dramatically improve the quality of your life AND your lighting.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
00:46 Setting up and slitting your lamp cord
02:23 Cut the smooth wire
03:34 Install the wires in the switch
04:34 Close up the switch and screw the lid on
05:59 Plug in your lamp
06:38 Mag's Roundup - DIY lava lamp
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A Repair to Remember aired on W Network in Canada from 1997-1999
A Repair to Remember CREW - Season 1
Host: Mag Ruffman
Director of Photography: Joan Hutton CSC
Art Director: Ane Christensen
Editor: Joe Weadick
Music: Carole Pope
Writers: Maryke McEwen, Mag Ruffman
Producers: Maria Armstrong, Maryke McEwen
Director: Laura Buchanan
Executive Producers: William Johnston, Ronald Lillie
1st AD: Filomena Guarasci
Camera Operator: Colin Evans
Makeup and Hair: Sue Upton
Continuity: Frances Handelman
Sound Recordist: Bronwen Connolly
Assistant Editor: Lisa Robertson
Construction Consultant: Daniel Hunter
Graphic Design: Marc Rosing
Production Coordinator: Twila Linden
Assistant Production Coordinators: Elaine Nicholson, Laura Lillie
Production Assistants: Lisa-Marie Dooley, Jeffery Necker
Camera Assistant: Rylan Vallee
Catering: Debra Wilson
Music Publisher: Joan Tone Musik
Clothing: Indian Motorcycle
Special thanks to Malcolm Firkser

[@jonpower9728]

I wonder how many people attempted this without proper patience and ended up ruining a whole electric cord?🤪

[@toolgirl]

There's nothing sadder than a bedside lamp with a handy toggle switch installed on a two-foot cord. I learned that the hard way.