[Darius Wey]

Do you have any electrical tape lying around? You could wrap that around the exposed portion of the cable.

[Darius Wey]

Do you have any electrical tape lying around? You could wrap that around the exposed portion of the cable.

[Fishie]

Originally Posted by G M Fude

Maybe you're thinking of a different type of adhesive, Fishie. What you've described is not the way anaerobic adhesives -- like cyanoacrylates -- work at all.

These adhesives are applied almost universally in, for example, aircraft construction for preventing fasteners coming out of airframes during the vibrations caused by flight. Aircraft engineers, indeed the air transport industry as a whole, are paranoid about any corrosive chemicals. I know because I'm an industrial chemist and it's a pain in the butt flying any chemicals that have a pH slightly below 5.

Cyanoacrylates are also used in cars, trucks, ships, skyscrapers, electronic manufacturing, and a bit of web research reveals they are also used in corrosion prevention.

Whoops, my bad, I apologise.

[Mark Kenepp]

Originally Posted by Darius Wey

Do you have any electrical tape lying around? You could wrap that around the exposed portion of the cable.

Electrical tape is an option, though I don't have any lying around.

The problem area is really quite small, a piece of electrical tape would seem like overkill.

Wow, I never thought this thread would reach a second page.

I guess I underestimated the power of adhesives :splat:

[gluedude]

Basically Super Glue is an insulator. It's insulating properties are about 250 volts per ml thickness.

[Brad Adrian]

...or perhaps some heat-shrink tape or tubing available from your local hardware store or Radio Shack. That tends to be less bulky than electrical tape once it's shrunk.