Replacing a 30 amp 120 volt shore cord end plug. 

Captain Wayne, Some people understand HOW to do something, many less people know how to explain a process to another. You are a natural teacher. Another comment, I do not care for instructional videos with no narrative. The reason being is you forced to interpret through one’s eyes ONLY. You gave away about a dozen AWESOME tips/tricks based on your experience to ensure the student is successful straight away. 🙏

This video is excellent! I replaced two plugs in about 45 minutes. Thanks Captain!

Glad you took the time to make this. I have been struggling with either to toss some cords or repair. Repair it will be. Now to find the fittings.

Lots of helpful tips. Went smoothly. I used a PVC pipe cutter to cut the cable. Thanks for a great video.

Thanks for an outstanding video/tutorial, I can now more confidently salvage some cords!

You helped me fix my power cord and saved me $100plus!

thanks for sharing your knowledge to an ole timer !

Thank you! That was really helpful.

Excellent demo. Thanks

Very good job and well done sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you wiggle the wire a little bit during or after you tighten up the set screw/clamp you will find that it has worked itself a little looser. Keep wiggling the wire and tightening the screw until it stops squishing and stays tight so you can't tighten it any more. You don't need to tighten and push that hard on the screw if you do the wiggle and won't risk slipping and putting the screwdriver through your palm. I'm a commercial electrician and have installed thousands of cord ends. The neatest and biggest portable cord connector I've installed was 400A for a large conveyor belt on wheels which plugged into a series of other conveyor belts downstream. The connector was so big and heavy that it was all one person could do to lift it with the cord installed into it.

Very nice, really helped me, why is this yellow, My plug had failed. My boat from 2008 has a blue one. In the end I decided to replace the whole cable as mine originally was blue and adding a yellow plug at the end would have looked awful!

Hi Capt. Thanks for this video. I want to replace the female end of my 50amp (125/250V) power cord and noted you saying there are a few things slightly different. So, before I cut off the female end of my cord, could you please tell me what those differences are, and what I need to look out for. Thanks.

Love your videos. Whu dielectric grease. As it is an insulator, would it add resistance to the connection? I've always wondered about that.

I'm with you on repair rather than replacement of perfectly good copper wire. I'm trying to do this for my own 30A shore power cord. Here's the issue I'm running into one of the set screws just spins . It's the one for the black wire. I tried it without being able to snug it anyway and then tested it and all showed correct then I moved the cord around a bit and the tester showed an open ground wire. Is that because the black wire slipped loose? If so how can I get that screw to work properly? Can you please tell me what color wire is the ground green black or white? If it's the black then I know my problem is that set screw.

Should of explained the polarity from where you screw the cable to what’s on the front.

I'm surprised Marineco -'the marine cable company' doesn't use tin plated copper -which is the give a way for marine cable. Using acid is iffy in my opinion. It will capillary up the wire that may not wash out. I'd rather mechanically remove.

Why would you coat and smear the dielectric grease into the strands? It is an insulator.

if you cut back a foot of cord only to find more corrosion when stripping the wire, does cleaning that little quarter inch section with ospho really do much (if the rest of the wire is still black inside)?

Probably a slip of the tongue but Ospho is phosphoric acid. Muriatic acid is hydrochloric acid.

L(locking)5(125V)30(30A)R(receptical)....L530R. So is it phosphoric or hydrochloric acid? If you see the truck in my icon, it uses marine grade electrical exclusively, including coax connectors as well as smaller phone and fiber connectors. Do you have any objection to the us of SJO cable for fabricating shore power cables. Currently my cables are old and the years of UV exposure has made the outer jacket brittle and it is cracking away from the inner conductors. Sea water has a very low resistance...... Good video.

The video shows applying di electric grease to the electrical contact sufaces of the wire and the plug. Why would anyone put an insulating grease between two conductors. Make the connection first then put the grease on to protect it.

So what happens if there's no color coding on the l5 plug ,just put the black wire into any one of the 3 prongs?

Muriatic acid leaves chlorides behind on the work piece. Rarely is it a good way to remove corrosion as it quickly leads to accelerated oxidation.

I am so sorry for the comment that was left on here. The next door neighbors kid was on my computer and I remember watching your video and I left it on my screen and he commented on this video. I have removed the comment.

Your voice kind sounds like Mr. Rogers

list a link to the parts you are using

Good video except for the fact that you put the wires into the wrong side of the 'tighten-down' clamp. WTF.

You spent a bunch on replacement plugs, and still have an adapter with corroded conductors. Demonstrating replacement steps still applies, but you should have recommended throwing this adapter away in real life.

thanks for sharing your knowledge to an ole timer !