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Damn, damn, damn and 6 damns all in a row!

I got all suited up in my all in one overalls, groomed Star to within an inch of her life, bought a new extension lead - set it all up and the clippers wouldn't work.

Damn - other half now has a job this evening - he is an electronics engineer so hopefully he can figure out what is wrong - if not, off to the servicing people - probably where I should have sent them in the first place.....

Think it is an electrical problem - well hope so anyway.

However, bought them about 20 years or more ago for £100 (Hauptners) and they have paid for themselves over and over.
 
Gosh, haven't they done well!!

It sounds like an electrical problem, hope its not terminal. :(

I had a similar problem... plugged in extension lead, plugged clippers into that, switched on... blew all the lights in the stables. Dad reset the fuses, switched on clippers, fuses went again! In the end, Dad changed the extension lead for a different one and it all worked. Old extension lead went in the bin.
 
I had this happen to me the other week and due to their advancing years thought it was not worth having them repaired so had a play around with them myself. I discovered that where the wire went into the clippers there is a plastic bar (like you get in a plug) holding the cord in place and the wire under this bar broken (not actually visible). Cut of 4 inches of the cord and rewired them and hey presto they work again! I found this totally by trial and error and a good dose of luck but worth a try.
 
This once happened to me, went through every possibility, I sent them off and turned out they only needed a new cable, cost £35. Hope your hubby fixes them, nothing more annoying than getting all prepped to clip and clippers fail.
 
I bought my Hauptners in 1983 and they were about ten years old then! It's quite common for the lead to get loose where it goes into the base of the clippers as Jane_Lou explained. Hope you get them sorted!
 
I have good news - took clippers home and told OH that he HAD to fix them immediately..... he plugged them into the kitchen socket and turned them on - they burst into life.

Turns out that the sockets up the stables are the knackered objects!

Good news is that clippers are fine - (though I think I really should send them off to be serviced this year..) bad news is that I need to find some sockets up the stables that actually work.

Good old Hauptners - they are real work horses - can be temperamental when it comes to keeping the tension right but they do the job over and over.

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