Caught my clippers smoking mid-fade yesterday - bad wiring in cheap cords

Was doing a skin fade on a regular client and smelled burning plastic. Looked down and the cord near the plug was actually melting. Swapped to a $15 grounded extension cord from Home Depot and it ran fine. Anyone else had cheap cords almost catch fire on you?

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the_olivia18d ago

Oh man, that's sketchy as hell. I actually saw a post the other day about a dude whose cheap clipper cord straight up melted into his client's neck while he was doing a lineup. Scary stuff. Those bargain bin cords are scary because they don't have the right gauge wire to handle the power draw over time. I mean, it's wild how fast they can go from fine to flaming honestly.

brown.willow18d ago

And it's not just the cord, those cheap clippers overheat way faster too.